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
| Created 7 Apr 2009 | Last significant change: 13 Mar 2023
00:44: Anne (Champion de Crespigny) Young edited the Biography for Barack Hussein Obama Sr. (abt.1934-1982). ({{Kenya Sticker}}) [Thank Anne for this]
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Biography
Barack Obama Sr. was born in Kenya
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 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."
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NB: There's also an extra quote mark at the end of the bio -- I'm guessing that's just an overlooked copy edit, but I defer to the project managers on whether the whole paragraph or the whole bio needs a starting quote mark, nor whether the orphaned quote mark just needs to be deleted. Thank you to the wonderful WikiTree project managers who make so many good things happen!
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