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President Obama
Question | Answer |
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Barack Obama defeated | John McCain to become President of the United States |
He is first African American to win the | race for the White House |
In 1967 Barack’s family moved to | Indonesia |
He majored in political science and international relations at | Columbia University in New York |
He worked as the director of a | community project |
He is the first black president of the | Harvard Law Review |
He is the fifth | African-American Senator in U.S. history |
He taught law at | University of Chicago Law School |
Barack Hussein Obama was born Aug. 4, 1961, in | Honolulu, Hawaii |
His father, Barack Obama, Sr., was born in | Nyanza Province, Kenya |
His mother, Ann Dunham, grew up in | Wichita, Kansas |
He gave keynote speech in support of John Kerry at the | 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston. |
From 1997 to 2004, he served three terms in the | Illinois Senate |
After high school, he moved to Los Angeles, where he studied at | Occidental College |
Obama was a founding member of the board of directors of | Public Allies |
He was the only Senate member of the | Congressional Black Caucus |
Obama announced his candidacy for President of the United States at the | Old State Capitol building in Springfield, Illinois |