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Who Were Barack Obama's Parents?
- Former president Barack Obama has written extensively about his parents and family, and continues to tell their story in his new memoir A Promised Land.
- His father, Barack Obama Sr., was a successful Kenyan economist, while his mother Ann Dunham was an accomplished American anthropologist.
- Here's what we know about the pair, including how they met while studying at the University of Hawaii in 1960.
"I am the son of a Black man from Kenya and a white woman from Kansas," former president Barack Obama famously said in a 2008 campaign speech in Philadelphia. Obama wasn't the first president (nor the last) to have a parent born outside of the United States, but his status as the first bi-racial president and an unconventional childhood—which began in Honolulu, Hawaii, and included time in Seattle, and Indonesia—made his upbringing the subject of much attention.
A Promised Land
Per NPR, which excerpted A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama's Mother by Janny Scott, his mom, Stanley Ann Dunham (who went by Ann) and dad, Barack Obama Sr. met in 1960, and had their son in 1961. Though the two were not together for long, their lives remained intertwined as each went on to successful careers in the worlds of
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- 2011
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- Jacobs, Sally H. 1957-
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- Obama, Barack H (Barack Hussein) 1936-1982
- Obama, Barack Family
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Barack Obama Sr.
Kenyan economist; father of Barack Obama (1934–1982)
Barack Hussein Obama Sr. (;[9][10] born Baraka Obama, 18 June 1934[2][3] – 24 November 1982) was a Kenyan senior governmental economist and the father of Barack Obama, the 44thpresident of the United States. He is a central figure of his son's memoir, Dreams from My Father (1995). Obama married in 1954 and had two children with his first wife, Kezia. He was selected for a special program to attend college in the United States and studied at the University of Hawaii where he met Stanley Ann Dunham, whom he married in 1961 following the conception of his son, Barack. Obama and Dunham divorced three years later.[11] Obama then went to Harvard University for graduate school, where he earned an M.A. in economics, and returned to Kenya in 1964. He saw his son Barack once more, when his son was about 10.
In late 1964, Obama Sr. married Ruth Beatrice Baker, a Jewish-American woman he had met in Massachusetts. They had two sons together before separating in 1971 and divorcing in 1973. Obama first worked for an oil company, before beginning work as an economist with the Kenyan Ministry of Transport. He was promoted to senior economic analyst in the Ministry