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Barack Obama - Biography

Barack Hussein Obama Jr., the 44th President of the United States, was born on August 4, , in Honolulu, Hawaii.

His parents, Barack Hussein Obama Sr., a Kenyan economist, and Stanley Ann Dunham, an American anthropologist, met at the University of Hawaii. However, when Barack was still an infant, his father left for Harvard to pursue further studies, leaving the family behind due to financial difficulties.

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When Barack turned two, his father moved to Kenya and divorced Barack's mother.

At the age of six, Barack's mother remarried an Indonesian student named Lolo Soetoro, and they moved to Indonesia. Barack spent four years there, attending a public school in Jakarta.

After returning to Hawaii, he lived with his maternal grandparents. In , he graduated from Punahou School in Honolulu, where he was a member of the basketball team and won a state