6th Grade Mr. Cohick Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Do you know any details about our President’s life? What his childhood was like? Did you know he lived in Indonesia? President Barack H. Obama has lived a very interesting life. Read on to find out more interesting facts about our forty-fourth president of the United States.
Barack Hussein Obama the second was born on Friday, August 4, 1961 in Hawaii, Honolulu. He was abandoned at the age two with his mother Ann Dunham and had move in with her father, Stanly Dunham, an her mother Madelyn Dunham. He was raised by all three of them. In 1966, h started kindergarten in Noeleai Elementary School. 1968-1971 he left Hawaii and went to live in Indonesia and did first though fourth in St. Francis Assisi, a private catholic school. But for fourth grade he went to State Elementary School.
1971, he went back to Hawaii and started fifth through twelfth grade in Punahou School. After, high school Obama studied at Occidental College in Los Angeles for two years. He then transferred to Columbia University in New York graduating in 1983 with a degree in political science.
Obama was a graduate of Columbia University, and Harvard Law School, where he was community organizer in Chicago before earning his Law degree pursuing a political career. He went to the University Law School from 1992-2004. Also, Obama had won awards, like the Nobel Peace, and had accomplishments.
With all the hard work Barack Hussein Obama had done, he was elected President of the United States in 2008. On January 18, 2011 President Obama and Hu Jinato shared a private dinner at the White House, in Washington D.C. Hu, Obama, and other top official met, to talk about trade and security. They also discussed human right issues, something Hu and Obama disagreed on. President Obama urged Hu to try to help kids in Hattie with his foundation and hard work.
Other than being the president, Obama is also an awesome father of two beautiful girls, and a grate husband. He married Michelle Obama in 1992. Then, they had thirteen year old, Malia Obama on Saturday, July 4th, 1998. Later, they had nine year old, Sasha Obama on Sunday, June 10th 2001.