Five important facts about barack obama

Last updated on February 7th,

Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States, holds a special place in history as the first African-American president of the country.

Read on to discover 53 interesting facts about Barack Obama, both political and personal.

Childhood

1. Barack Hussein Obama Jr. was born on August 4, , in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Five important facts about barack obama

He is the first American president to be born outside the 48 contiguous states. His name, Barack, means &#;one who is blessed&#; in Swahili. Barry was his childhood nickname.

2. His parents, Stanley Ann Dunham and Barack Obama Sr.

divorced when the Obama was two. His father returned to Kenya.

3. Obama only saw his father once again, when he came to Hawaii in He was killed in a car accident in

4. Ann remarried Lolo Soetoro and moved to Jakarta, Indonesia in the late s where Obama learned to eat snake and dog meat plus roasted grasshopper and kept a pet ape named Tata.

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