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Early life and career of Barack Obama. Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States, was born on August 4, 1961, in Honolulu, Hawaii [1] to Barack Obama, Sr. (1936–1982) (born in Oriang' Kogelo of Rachuonyo North District, [2] Kenya) and Stanley Ann Dunham, known as Ann (1942–1995) (born in Wichita, Kansas, United States).
As a child in Indonesia, Obama was called "Barry Soetoro", reflecting his stepfather's surname, or "Barry Obama", using his father's surname. [29] [30] [31] When he was ten years old, Obama returned to Honolulu to live with his maternal grandparents, Madelyn and Stanley Dunham, and has resided continuously in the United States since 1971.
Numerous lawsuits and ballot challenges, based on conspiracy theories related to Barack Obama 's eligibility for the United States presidency, were filed following his first election in 2008 and over the course of his two terms as president. These actions sought to have Obama disqualified from running for, or being confirmed for, the Presidency ...
Designated NYCL. March 19, 1974. The Schinasi House is a 12,000-square-foot (1,100 m 2), 35-room marble mansion located at 351 Riverside Drive on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City. It was built in 1907 for Sephardic Jewish tobacco baron Morris Schinasi. Completed in 1909 at the northeast corner of West 107th Street and Riverside ...
Soetoro met the divorced Ann Dunham at the East-West Center while both were students at the University of Hawaii, [8] [9] [10] and married on 15 March 1965. [10] [11] Soetoro, a geographer, [10] [12] returned to Indonesia in 1966 [13] to help map Western New Guinea [14] for the Indonesian government, while Dunham and her son Barack Obama moved into her parents' house in Honolulu to complete ...
August 09, 1993. Kate Annette Wetherill Estate is a national historic district located at Head of the Harbor in Suffolk County, New York. The district encompasses an estate with three contributing buildings, two contributing sites, and two contributing structures. The estate house was designed by Stanford White in 1895 in the Colonial Revival ...
Spanish: Los sueños de mi padre : una historia de raza y herencia, Vintage Español, New York City, New York, (2009), ISBN 978-0-307-47387-5; Spanish: Los sueños de mi padre : una historia de raza y herencia, translated by Fernando Miranda; Evaristo Páez Rasmussen, Granada : Almed, (2008), ISBN 978-84-936685-0-1
Maya Kasandra Soetoro-Ng (née Soetoro; / ˈ m aɪ. ə s uː ˈ t ɔːr oʊ ˈ ɪ ŋ /; [1] born August 15, 1970) is an Indonesian-born American academic, who is a faculty specialist at the Spark M. Matsunaga Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution, based in the College of Social Sciences at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. She is also ...