Barack Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, on August 4 1961. He was raised in Kenya, Africa. His mother Ann Dunham was raised in Kansas. His parents met when they were in the University of Hawaii. Obama graduated from to Colombia University in 1983. In 1985, he moved to Chicago, Illinois, to become a community organizer working to improve the poor neighborhoods in Chicago. Then Obama when to Harvard law school and he graduated in 1991. He became the first African-American president on Harvard Law School. Obama went back to Chicago after the Law School. He worked as a lawyer and taught for a few years before he ran for the Illinois State Senate in 1996. He becomes state senator for eight years. Obama joined the U.S senate in 2004. He was the third African American to be elected to the U.S. Senate since 1877.
