Barack
Hussein
Obama
Sr.
Born about in Alego, Kenya
Ancestors 
Son of Onyango Obama
and Habiba (Nyanjoga) Obama
Husband of
Kezia (Aoko) Obama
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
Husband of
Stanley Ann Dunham
— married
2 Feb 1961 (to 1964) in Maui, Hawaii
Husband of
[private wife (1930s - unknown)]
Descendants 
Father of
[private son (unknown - unknown)], Auma Obama, Barack Obama Jr., [private son (1960s - unknown)], David Obama and [private son (1970s - unknown)]
Died
at about age 48
in Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya
Profile last modified
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Biography
Barack Obama Sr. is Notable.
Barack Obama Sr. was born in Kenya
Baraka Obama Sr. was a Kenyan government economist and the father of Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States.
Barack Obama's date of birth is unclear. His earliest school records bear no birth date. His University of Hawaii transcript records his birth date as 18 June 1934. His marriage certificate and résumés indicate he was born in 1936. U.S. immigration records show his year of birth as both 1934 and 1936. Family members say they believe he was born in 1936.
Barack Obama's father (1934–1982), son of Onyango and second wife Habiba Akumu Obama. Educated in the US at the University of Hawai'i and Harvard University, he returned to Kenya, where he became an economist with the government, serving in the ministries of transportation and finance. Obama Sr. was married a total of three times and fathered a daughter and at least four sons in addition to Barack II.
Barack Obama Sr., was a Luo from Nyang'oma Kogelo, Kenya. President Obama's parents met in 1960 in a Russian language class at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, where his father was a foreign student on Maui. They married in February of 1961.[1] They separated when, in late August 1961, Obama's mother moved with their newborn son to attend the University of Washington in Seattle for a year. During that time, Obama Sr. completed his undergraduate economics degree in Hawaii in June 1962, then left to attend graduate school at Harvard University on a scholarship. Obama's parents divorced in March 1964. Obama Sr. returned to Kenya in 1964 where he remarried; he visited Barack in Hawaii only once, in 1971. He died in an automobile accident in 1982, his son being 21 years old at that time."
Sources
- ↑ "Hawaii, Board of Health, Marriage Record Indexes, 1909-1989", , FamilySearch Entry for Barack H Obama and Stanley Dunham, Feb 1961.
- Wikipedia entry: Wikipedia contributors, "Barack Obama Sr.", Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, (accessed 16 August 2024).
See also:
- Wikidata: Item Q649593
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