There will be a United States Presidential election this year. I have been doing a series about the family trees of each of the candidates. The Democrats will, undoubtedly, select Barack Obama as their candidate. Here is a brief look into Barack Obama’s family tree.
Barack Obama is the current President of the United States of America. This means that he is the forty-fourth President of the United States. He also is the first African-American to be elected as President. Previous to that, he served as an Illinois Senator, representing the thirteenth District. Barack Obama is a Democrat.
At the time I am writing this blog, Barack Obama has not officially announced that he will run for President in the 2012 election. However, it is customary for the incumbent President to run for a second term.
Barack Hussein Obama II was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, in August of 1961. His father was Barack Obama Sr., who was born in Alego, Kenya in 1936. He was twenty-five years old when Barack Obama II was born. Barack’s mother was Stanley Ann Dunham. She was born in Wichita, Kansas, in 1942. This means she was nineteen years old when her son was born.
Barack Obama Sr. and Stanley Ann Dunham got married in February of 1961. They got divorced in 1964. That means that Stanley Ann Dunham was twenty-two years old when she got divorced. It also means that Barack would have been around three years old at the time.
In 1965, Barack’s mother married Lolo Soetoro. This makes Lolo Soetoro Barack’s step-father. Soetoro was born in Bandung, West Java, in the Dutch West Indies, in 1935. This means that he was thirty years old when he married Barack’s mother, (who would have been either twenty-two or twenty-three years old at the time).
In 1970, the couple became parents to a daughter, named Maya Kassandra Soetoro. This makes Maya the half-sister of Barack Obama. He also has several half-siblings from his biological father, Barack Obama Sr.. When Maya was born, Lolo was thirty-five years old, and Ann was either twenty-seven or twenty eight years old. Lolo and Ann divorced in 1980.
Barack Obama married Michelle Robinson in 1992. Barack was thirty-one years old when he got married, and Michelle, who was born in 1964, was twenty-eight years old. The couple has two daughters. Malia Ann was born in 1998, and Natasha, (who is called “Sasha”), was born in 2001.
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