Barack Obama was born August 4, 1961, at the Kapi'olani hospital in Honolulu, Hawaii. He was the first president to be born in Hawaii. His mother Stanley Ann Dunham, was born in Wichita, Kansas. Stanley is mostly of English descent, but her family also traces to Germany and Ireland. Obama's father was a Luo from Nyanza Province, Kenya.
When Obama was in his childhood, he recalled, "That my father looked nothing like the people around me-that he was black pitch, my mother white as milk- barely registered in my mind." Reflecting later on his formative years in Honolulu, Obama wrote, "The opportunity that Hawaii offered-to experience a variety of cultures in a climate of mutual respect-became an integral part of my world view, and a basis for the values that I hold most dear."
Obama is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he was the president of the Harvard Law Review. He was a community organizer in Chicago before earning his law degree. He worked as an civil rights attorney in Chicago and taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004. Obama served three terms in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004. Following an unsuccessful bid against a Democratic incumbent for seat in the U.S. House of Representatives.
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