Barack Obama was the son of Ann Dunham and Barack Obama Sr. His father was from Kenya and his mother was from Kansas. He lived in Indonesia with his mother and stepfather from age six to ten. His mother sent him to Hawaii to get a better education because she felt the Catholic and Muslim schools in Indonesia were not enough. His mother did not go back with him to Hawaii with him, instead, he stayed with her parents. He attended Punahou School from the fifth grade until he graduated. After High School, he applied to go to college in Los Angeles California at Occidental college. He then went to the University of Columbia. He majored in political science and graduated in the year 1983. Obama decided to stay in New York for a year afterward. He then began working as a community organizer. His job was to organize a Developing Communities Project funded by the church. After finishing his degre
e and the year in New York he applied to Harvard Law School. There he became the president of Harvard law review from 1990 to 1991. Obama was a liberal but he persuaded people to believe he would treat their views fairly. He was the first African American president of the law review. He grew very popular from social media. Random House wrote a book about his race relations. After his first year at Harvard, he took a summer internship in Chicago. There is where he met Michelle Robinson, in 1992 they got married. The two then settled down and had to daughters. His first Political Campaign was the year 1996 to become the Chicago state senator. In 2004 Obama ran for the state senate. He did not agree with president George W Bush’s decision to start a war with Iraq to get rid of the dictatorship. He then went on to run for the state senate. He beat Alan Keyes another black man by 70 percent.