Barack Obama Facts For Kids

Barack H. Obama is the 44th President of the United States of America. He got more votes than any presidential candidate in the history of America. We have gathered a complete set of Barack Obama Facts For Kids that will help you learn all about Barack Obama. You are going to learn who he is, his date of birth, birthplace, height, early childhood, his school, education, jobs, history, presidency facts, accomplishments, personal life, marriage, his mother, family, life timeline, hobbies, and many other interesting and fun facts about Barack Obama. It is the best Barack Obama Biography For Kids.

1. Who Is Barack Obama

Barack Obama is an American politician and lawyer.
He was the first African-American and 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017.
He was a member of the Democratic Party and a previous U.S Senator (from 2005 to 2008) from the Illinois State of USA.

2. When Was Barack Obama Born – Barack Obama’s Birthday

Barack Obama was born on August 4, 1961.

3. Where Was Barack Obama Born – Barack Obama Birthplace

Barack Obama was born at Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children in Honolulu, Hawaii.

4. How Tall Is Barack Obama – Barack Obama Height

Barack Obama is 1.85 meters (6 feet) tall.

5. Where Is Barack Obama Originally From

The father of Barack Obama was an African while his mother was mostly of English ancestry.
Originally, he is from Honolulu, Hawaii, as he was born there.

6. Where Was Barack Obama Born And Raised – Where Did Barack Obama Grow Up

Barack Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, on August 4, 1961. He spent the early 10 years of his life in Hawaii, the USA, and then in Indonesia.
In 1971 at the age of 10, Barack Obama moved along with his mother back to Hawaii and live with his grandparents.
His father visited him only once in 1971 for a month.
He was grown up by the middle-class family of his mother.
Obama lived with his grandparents when his mother returned to Jakarta along with his step-sister Maya in August 1975.
Obama describes that as a young adult, he struggled for the reconciliation of social perceptions of his multicultural inheritance.

7. Barack Obama Early Life – Barack Obama Childhood

Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, on August 4, 1961, Barack Obama spent his early childhood in Hawaii.
In the latter days of August 1961, the mother of Barack Obama moved along with him to the University of Washington in Seattle where they reside for a year.
Obama met his father only once in 1971 when his father visited him at Christmas.
In 1965, the mother of Barack Obama married an Indonesian East-West Center graduate student Lolo Soetoro.
Lolo Soetoro, the stepfather of Barack Obama, went back to Indonesia in 1966, while Barack Obama and his mother followed him in 1967.
In Indonesia, they initially lived in the Menteng Dalam, Tabet, sub-district of South Jakarta.
Later they lived in the wealthier neighborhood in Central Jakarta’s subdistrict, Menteng.
About his early childhood, Barack Obama said, “That my father looked nothing like the people around me – that he was black as pitch, my mother white as milk – barely registered in my mind.”

8. What School Did Barack Obama Go To – Where Did Barack Obama Go To School

Barack Obama attended the Noelani Elementary School, in Honolulu, Hawaii, for kindergarten.
For his 1st to 3rd grade, he attended a private Catholic St. Francis Assisi School, in Jakarta, Indonesia.
For the part of 3rd grade and 4th grade, he attended State Elementary School Menteng 01 or the Besuki School, in Jakarta, Indonesia.
From 5th to 12th, Obama attended the Punahou School, in Honolulu, Hawaii.
He did his J.D., magna cum laude from Harvard Law School.

9. Barack Obama Education Background – President Obama Education

In 1966-1967, Barack Obama attended kindergarten at Noelani Elementary School in Manoa, Hawaii.
For the 1st, 2nd, and a part of the 3rd grade, he attended the Indonesian-language Catholic School Santo Fransiskus Assisi (St. Francis of Assisi), as he was living with his mother in Indonesia.
For the remaining part of 3rd grade and 4th grade, he attended the government-run Indonesian-language Besuki School, which was located at the distance of one-and-half miles at the east side of Menteng administrative village.
He also became a member of the Cub Scouts.
In 1971, Obama began his 5th grade at the Punahou School in Hawaii, while he was living with his grandparents.
He attended Punahou School till the completion of his 12th grade in 1979.
After his high school, Obama attended Occidental College in Los Angeles for two years (from 1979 to 1981).
In 1981, he then transferred to Columbia University in New York City, where he studied political science as a major subject along with international relations and English literature.
In late 1988, he attended Harvard Law School from where he graduated with a J.D. magna cum laude.
In the Harvard Law School, Obama was elected as the first black president of the Harvard Law Review in 1990.

Dates	Grades	School	Type	Degree
1966-1967	Kindergarten	Noelani Elementary School, Honolulu, Hawaii	Public
1968-1970	1st to 3rd grade	St. Francis Assisi, Jakarta, Indonesia	Private Catholic
1970-1971	4th grade	State Elementary School Menteng 01 or the Besuki School, Jakarta, Indonesia	Public
1971-1979	5th to 12th grade	Punahou School, Honolulu, Hawaii	Private	High School Diploma
1979 to 1981	Freshman-Sophomore year	Occidental College, Los Angeles	Private	Transferred to Columbia University
1981 to 1983	Junior-senior year	Columbia University, New York City	Private	B.A. in political science, international relations, and English Literature
1988 to 1991	1L-3L	Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts	Private	J.D., magna cum laude

10. What Was Barack Obama’s First Job

Barack Obama did his first job at the Business International Corporation (BI) in 1983 after the completion of his B.A from Columbia.
Obama worked in the financial services division of the Business International Corporation as a research associate.
He edited for Financing Foreign Operation and also wrote for the Business International Money Report.

11. Barack Obama Career – Barack Obama Jobs – Obama Job History

Barack Obama is a lawyer, law professor, politician, and author.
He started his first job in New York as a research associate at the Business International Corporation (BI) in 1983, after his graduation.
He then moved to Chicago and worked as director of the Developing Communities Project (DCP) for three years.
He also worked for the Gamaliel Foundation as an instructor and consultant.
During the first year of his study at the Harvard Law School, he was chosen as an editor of the Harvard Law Review.
In the second year, he was elected the first black president of the Harvard Law Review.
In 1989, during his study at the Harvard Law School, he worked at the law firms of Sidley and Austin as an associate.
In 1990, he worked at the Chicago-based law firm, Hopkins and Sutter.
Upon his return to Chicago in 1991, he got a contract for writing a book about race relations.
The University of Chicago Law School recruited Obama to their faculty and provided him an office to work on his book. He was planned to complete his book in one year.
However, the book has evolved into a personal memoir and took a much longer time, and finally, in mid-1995, the manuscript was published as Dreams from My Father.
In 1992 (from April to October), he directed Illinois Project Vote and his efforts helped Carol Moseley Braun to become the first African-American woman elected to the Senate.
From 1992 to 1996, Obama worked as a lecturer, and from 1996 to 2004, as a senior lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School where he taught constitutional law.
Along with law, he also taught courses in voting rights, due process & equal protection, and racism.
In 1993, he joined a 13-attorney law firm, Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland, where he was an associate from 1993 to 1996 and then an of counsel attorney from 1996 to 2004.
Obama served from 1994 to 2002 on the boards of directors of the Wood Funds of Chicago and the Chicago Annenberg Challenge from 1995 to 2002.
In 1996, Obama was elected to the Senate of Illinois where his remarkable work was helping to pass legislation that reformed Welfare laws, criminal justice, secured campaign finance regulations, and extended health care to low-income and poor families.
In 2004, he was elected as a member of the United States Senate from Illinois with 70% votes.
In 2006, he wrote his second book The Audacity of Hope (2006).
In February 2007, he announced that he would seek the presidential nomination of the Democratic Party in 2008.
On November 4, 2008, Obama won the election and became the first African-American president of the United State.
He held the office till 2017 when he was re-elected as the president of the USA on November 6, 2012.

12. How Old Was Barack Obama When Elected President

Barack Obama was 47 years and 169 days old when elected the president of the United State.

13. Barack Obama Presidency Facts

Barack Obama’s presidency started on January 20, 2009, at noon EST, after his inauguration as the 44th president of the United States.
He also won the 2012 presidential election and was re-elected.
His second term of a presidency ended on January 20, 2017.
Barack Obama was the first African-American, first black, and the first multiracial President of the United States.
He was also the first President born (in Hawaii) outside the 48-contiguous states of the United States.
The first-term actions of Obama overcome the global financial crises and included the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), which was a major stimulus package.
During his presidency, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) or Obamacare had been enacted, which was a major reform in health care.
In his first-term presidency, the financial regulation reform bill was passed and the presence of the US military in Iraq was ended.
In 2011, a military operation arranged by the Obama administration killed Osama bin Laden.
In the second-term presidency of Obama, he took steps to overcome climate change through the signing of the Paris Agreement (which was a major international climate agreement) and an executive order to restrict the emissions of carbon.
He negotiated with Cuba and Iran, and during his second term of presidency, the number of US soldiers in Afghanistan declined greatly.

Barack Obama Presidency Facts

14. Barack Obama Accomplishments In Life – Barack Obama Achievements In Life

Some achievements of Barack Obama are:
He was the first black American who became the president of the Harvard Law Review.
From 2005 to 2008, he served as a U.S. Senator from Illinois.
He was the first African-American elected as the President of the United States.
During his presidency, he rescued America from the Great Recession and reduced the unemployment rate from 10% to 4.7% in six years.
The Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) he signed provided health insurance to about 20 million uninsured citizens of America.
He ended the U.S. military presence in Iraq.
Osama Bin Laden was killed during his presidency.
He signed a $787 billion fiscal stimulus, The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (The Recovery Act) on February 17, 2009, that stimulated economic growth and ended the Great Recession.
Obama supported the campaign of the LGBT community for marriage equality.
He negotiated with Iran and Cuba.
In 2009, he won the Peace Nobel Prize for his “extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between people”.

15. Barack Obama Personal Life – Barack Obama Personal Life Information

Barack Obama was born as Barack Hussein Obama Jr. in Honolulu, Hawaii, on August 4, 1961.
His father Barack Hussein Obama Sr. was from Kenya, where he served as a senior economist in the government.
His mother Stanley Ann Dunham was an anthropologist.
He is educated at Columbia University and Harvard Law School.
His wife is Michelle (Robinson) Obama, to whom he married on October 3, 1992.
They have two daughters Malia and Natasha (Sasha).
Barack Obama believes in Christianity.16

16. Barack Obama Marriage Facts

When Barack Obama was a community organizer in Chicago, he lived with Sheila Miyoshi Jager.
Obama proposed to her twice, but she and her parents refused.
During his job as an associate at the Sidley Austin law firm in Chicago in 1989, he met Michelle Robinson, who was his advisor for three months.
Initially, she refused his requests for a date, however, they later started dating.
In 1991, they engaged and then married on October 3, 1992.

17. Barack Obama Mother

The mother of Barack Obama was Stanley Ann Dunham, who was born on November 29, 1942, in Wichita, Kansas, United States.
She studied at the East-West Center and also at the University of Hawaii from where she got her bachelor arts degree in anthropology in 1967.
In 1974, she received her master of arts degree, and in 1992, a Ph.D. degree with a specialization in economic anthropology and rural development of Indonesia.
She met the father of Barack Obama, Barack Hussein Obama Sr., in 1960 at the University of Hawaii while both were attending a Russian Language class.
They married on February 2, 1961, six months before the birth of Barack Obama.
They divorced in 1964.
She married for the second time in 1965 with Lolo Soetoro, who was an Indonesian.
The couple had a daughter Maya Kassandra Soetoro born in 1970.
They divorced on November 5, 1980.
In early 1995, she was diagnosed with uterine cancer and died on November 7, 1995.

18. Barack Obama Family – Barack Obama Family Information

Barack Obama is of Kenyan (Luo), African-American (from the father’s side), and Old Stock American (from the mother’s side) descent.
His immediate family was the first First Family of United States (2009 to 2017) of African-American ancestry.

Immediate Family:

The immediate family of Barack Obama includes his wife Michelle Obama and his two daughters Malia Obama and Sasha Obama.

Barack Obama Family

Parental Relations:

Hussein Onyango Obama was the paternal grandfather of Barack Obama, who converted from the tribal religion to Christianity and then to Islam.
Habiba Akumu Obama was the parental grandmother of Barack Obama and the second wife of his grandfather Hussein Onyango Obama. She and Hussein Onyango Obama had three children, Sarah, Auma, and Barack (father of Barack Obama).
Sarah Onyango Obama was the 3rd wife of Barack Obama’s grandfather.
Kezia Obama is the first wife of Barack Obama Sr. (father of Barack Obama).
Malik Obama (also known as Abongo) and Abo Obama (also known as Samson Obama) are Barack Obama’s half brothers.
Auma Obama is the half-sister of Barack Obama.
Ruth (Baker) Ndesandjo was the 3rd wife of Barack Obama’s father. They had two sons (Barack Obama’s half brothers) Mark Okoth Obama Ndesandjo and David Ndesandjo.
George Hussein Onyango Obama (half-brother of Barack Obama) is the son of Barack Obama Sr. and Jael Otieno.
Other parental relatives of Barack Obama include Omar Okech Obama (half-uncle), Zeituni Onyango (half-aunt), Yusuf Obama (half-uncle), and Sayid Obama (half-uncle).

Maternal Relations:

Stanley Armour Dunham was the maternal grandfather of Barack Obama.
Madelyn Lee Payne Dunham was the maternal grandmother of Barack Obama.
Ann Dunham was the mother of Barack Obama.
Charles Thomas Payne was the great-uncle of Barack Obama (his grandmother’s younger brother).

19. What Are Barack Obama Daughters’ Names – Barack Obama Daughters Name

Barack Obama and Michelle Obama have two daughters.
The elder one is Malia Ann Obama born in 1998.
The younger one is Natasha (“Sasha”) Obama born in 2001.

20. Barack Obama Memoir – Barack Obama Biography Book

Barack Obama wrote his memoir Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance, which was published in July 1995.
It explores a collection of events from his early years in Honolulu and Chicago up to his entry into the Harvard Law School in 1988.

21. Barack Obama Official Website

The official website of Barack Obama is: “https://barackobama.com/“

22. Barack Obama Life Timeline

The following is a brief timeline of the life of Barack Obama:

1961	Barack Obama born
1964	His parents divorced
1967	Obama’s mother moved to Indonesia along with him
1971	He came back to Hawaii
November 24, 1982	His father, Barack Obama Sr., was killed in a car accident
1992	Began teaching constitutional law at the University of Chicago while also practicing civil rights law
July 1995	He completed and published his book “Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance”
November 1995	His mother, Ann Dunham died
2000	Ran for the United States House seat for Illinois but lost
July 2004	At the Democratic National Convention, Obama delivered a keynote address
November 2004	Won the election for the United States Senate from Illinois
January 2005	Sworn as a US Senator
2006	Won Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for his book “Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance”
February 2007	Announced his candidacy for president
January 2008	Defeated Hillary Clinton with 38% votes in the Iowa Democratic Caucus
February 2008	Won 2nd Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for his book “The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream”
August 2008	Officially nominated as the Democratic presidential candidate and accepted the nomination
November 4, 2008	Elected as the first African-American President of the United States with 52.9% popular and 365 electoral votes
January 20, 2009	Sworn for his first term presidency as the 44th president of the USA
April 2009	He made a surprise visit to Iraq
October 2009	Obama got Peace Nobel Prize
March 23, 2010	He signed the Affordable Care Act
March 28, 2010	Made a trip to Afghanistan
August 2010	Ended the US military presence in Iraq
November 6, 2012	Re-elected as the President of the United States
January 20, 2013	Sworn for his second term Presidency
July 2015	Negotiated with Iran, which ended on a successful Iran Nuclear Deal
March 2016	Visited Cuba and became the first President of the United States to visit there in 88 years
May 2016	Visited Hiroshima, Japan, and became the first US President visited there where he called for a “World without nuclear weapons”
January 20, 2017	His two terms presidency ended and he left the office

23. Barack Obama Hobbies

Barack Obama’s hobbies include:
- Reading
- Writing
- Cooking
- Playing Basketball, Poker, and Scrabble

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24. Barack Obama Book For Kids

Barack Obama: A Biography for Children is a book about Barack Obama for kids.

25. Interesting Facts About Barack Obama – Facts About President Obama

The meaning of “Barack” in Swahili (a language spoken in most of the African countries) is the “one who is blessed”.
Barack Obama was the first black American to be chosen as the president of the Harvard Law Review.
He was also the first African-American President of the United States.
The American Political Science Association did a survey of historians in 2018, which ranked Obama as the 8th greatest American President.
In his memoir “Dreams from My Father”, Obama admitted that he experimented with cocaine and marijuana during his teenage.
The weakly haircut expanse of Barack Obama was $21.
Barack Obama has a pair of red boxing gloves signed by boxer Muhammad Ali.
Times Magazine chose Barack Obama two times as the man of the year, first in 2008 and second in 2012.
Barack Obama won Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album twice, first for his book “Dreams from My Father” and second for his other book “The Audacity of Hope”.
He won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize for his “extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between people”.

26. Fun Facts About Barack Obama – Barack Obama Fun Facts For Kids

The late grandmother of Barack Obama nicknamed him “Bar”.
Barack Obama worked at a popular ice cream store in his teenage, which is why he does not like ice cream.
Barack Obama likes reading comic books. The Spiderman and Conan the Barbarian are his favorite.
Pablo Picasso is the favorite artist of Barack Obama.
Barack Obama rarely drinks alcohol while rather than coffee, black forest berry iced tea is his favorite drink.
Barack Obama loves basketball and planned to have a basketball court in Wight House.