Profile of the Day: President Barack Obama
Happy birthday, President Obama! Today the 44th President of the United States turns 54.
Barack Hussein Obama was born on August 4, 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii to Ann Dunham, a white woman from Wichita, Kansas, and Barack Hussein Obama, Sr., a member of the Luo ethnicity in Nyanza Province, Kenya. While he was still young, his parents separated and his mother remarried an Indonesian man named Lolo Soetoro. Obama moved with is family to Indonesia before he was sent back to live with his maternal grandparents in Hawaii.
In November 2008, Obama made history when he became the first African-American to be elected President of the United States. He was re-elected for a second term in 2012, beating Republican hopeful Mitt Romney.
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