Barack Obama Facts
Barack Obama Facts
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Barack Obama was known as 'O' Bomber' in high school because he was skilled at basketball. |
In Swahili, Barack's name means 'one who is blessed'. |
Barack is left-handed. |
Barack can speak Spanish. |
While living in Indonesia as a child he had a pet ape named Tata. |
When living in Indonesia as a child Barack ate roasted grasshopper, dog meat and snake meat. |
Barack Obama would have likely become an architect if he had not been interested in politics. |
The Secret Service assigned to protect Barack have him the nickname 'Renegade'. |
Barack's mother was an anthropologist who earned several degrees in her lifetime. |
Barack Obama was the first African-American Harvard Law Review president. |
Barack's father died in 1982 in a car accident; his mother died in 1995 of ovarian cancer. |
Barack published his autobiography in 1995 titled Dreams from my Father. The audio version of this memoir earned him a Grammy in 2006. |
From 1992 until 2004 Barack Obama practiced civil rights law and taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School. |
Barack Obama married Michelle Robinson on October 3rd, 1992. They have two children, Natasha and Malia. |
Barack Obama ran for a U.S. House seat in 2000 but lost to a former Black Panther named Bobby Rush. |
Barack delivered the keynote address in 2004 at the Democratic National Convention. |
In 2004 Barack Obama won the Illinois Senate race, and was sworn in in January 2005. This was the first Senate race between two African-American candidates in the United States. |
Barack Obama announced that he was running for President of the United States in 2007. |
In June 2008 Barack secured enough delegates to win the nomination, and was officially nominated and accepts the nomination on August 27th/28th, 2008. |
Barack's grandmother, who helped raise him, died on November 3rd, 2008, from lung cancer. |
On November 4th, 2008, Barack Obama wins the United States Presidential election. He won with 66.7 million popular votes and 365 electoral votes. |
In 2008, Barack Obama is named Time Magazine's "Person of the Year'. |
Barack Obama was re-elected as the United States President on November 6th, 2012, and is again named 'Person of the Year' by Time Magazine. |
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