Barack Obama-From The Land of Aloha...Hawaii

Barack Obama was born to a black Kenyan father: Barack Hussein Obama Sr. (1936-1982) and white American mother: Ann Dunham (1942-1995), married from 1960-1965. His parents were both young college students at the University of Hawaii. Barack stayed behind with his mother when his father went to Harvard, where upon after that he returned alone to Kenya, where he worked as a goverment economist. Barack's mother, married once more to an Indonesian oil manager when her son was only six years old, and moved to Jakarta. Barack Jr. returned to Hawaii, and lived with his grandfather who was a furniture salesman and his grandmother who worked in a bank and they all lived in a small apartment. Somehow, he got into Punahou School, a very prestigious academy.

Later, Obama attended Columbia University and at Harvard Law School, becoming the first African-American editor for the Harvard Law Review in 1990. He began teaching at the University of Chicago Law School. He ran as a Democrat for the state senate seat from his district and won.

Barack Obama was elected in 2004 to the U.S. Senate as a Democrat from Illinois. In 2008, ran for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Presidency and won.