Barack Obama's Life And Accomplishments

Barack Obama was born on August 4, 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii. His parents were born worlds apart, with his mother from Wichita, KS and his father from Kenya. His father grew up herding goats and later earned a scholarship that allowed him to leave and pursue his goal of attending college. While studying at the University of Hawaii, he met Obama’s mother. When Obama was still an infant, his father moved to Massachusetts to pursue a Ph.D. at Harvard. His parents separated and divorced when he was two. After their divorce, his father moved back to Kenya.

In 1965, Obama’s mother married a University of Hawaii student from Indonesia. A year later when Obama was four years old, his family moved to Jakarta, Indonesia, where his sister was born

Then, he transferred to Columbia University in New York City. While in college, his father was in a serious accident in where he lost both of his legs and ended up losing his job. Two years later, his father got in another car accident that ended up killing him when he was 21 years old. Again, he did not let that stop him from achieving his goals. In 1983, Obama graduated with a degree in Political Science. He decided to work in impoverished Chicago’s South Side to help people fight for their rights. Around this time, he joined a church. Plus, he traveled to Kenya to visit his relatives and the graves of his father and grandfather.

After visiting Kenya, he entered Harvard Law School in 1988. His professors were very impressed by Obama abilities and work habits. One of his professors shared in an interview, “The better he did at Harvard Law School and the more he impressed people, the more obvious it became that he could have had anything, said Professor Tribe in a 2012 interview with Frontline, “but it was clear that he wanted to make a difference to people, to

Plus, he was a professor at the same time at University of Chicago between 1992 and 2004. On October 3, 1992 he married Michelle. Several years later, they had two daughters. He went on to write an autobiography, Dreams from my Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance. This book was printed in 25 languages, turned in to children’s book and an audiobook! He even won a Grammy for it in 2006.

He ran for Illinois State Senate in 1996 and won. As a state senator, he worked with Democrats and Republicans to make sure poor people had access to health care services and early childhood education. In 2000, he ran for U.S. House of Representatives and lost. But, he did not let it stop him! In 2004, he became the third African-American elected into U.S. Senate since the 1800s. As a Senator office, he partnered with Republicans to pass important bills that stopped the creation of weapons of mass destruction and to track federal spending. He stood up for victims of Hurricane Katrina and