Barack Hussein Obama, Jr. (born Barack Hussein Obama II, pronounced [bərɑːk huːseɪn oʊbɑːmə] (Barack Obama) - American statesman and politician, the 44th President of the United States of America [en] (20 January 2009), winner of the Nobel Prize. . 2009 world Until the election of the president was a US senator from Illinois was re-elected for a second term in 2012. The first African-American nominated for president of the United States from one of the two largest parties Zodiac -... Leo.ChildhoodBarack Obama was born August 4, 1961, in Honolulu, Hawaii. His parents met in 1960 while studying at the University of Hawaii at Manoa; father - Barack Obama, Sr. (1936-1982) - the son of the medicine man of the people of the Luo. Missionary school paid his studies in Nairobi and sent to study the course in Econometrics University of Hawaii, where he organized the Association of foreign students and become the best in his release.Obama's mother - Stanley Ann Dunham (1942-1995) - was born on a military base in Kansas in a family-American Christians, but later became an agnostic. Religion same Obama - Protestantism.Stanley Ann Dunham - English, Scottish, Irish and German descent; through her mother, Madeleine Lee Payne, in Barak has also ancestors of the Cherokee. Last name Dunham belongs to the aristocracy of American and comes from the first settlers Singleteri Richard and his son Jonathan (1639 / 40-1724), who for unclear reasons, changed his name to Dunham (family legend elevates it to the owners Danhem castle in Scotland, which is in its infancy crime deprived family inheritance). Stanley Ann studied anthropology at the University of Hawaii, where Obama Sr. met.Father Obama Sr. and Dunham's parents were against the marriage, but they were married February 2, 1961. In 25-year-old Kenyan Barack it was the second marriage.And August 4, 1961, in Honolulu, Hawaii was born the fifth child of Obama Sr., but the 18-year-old American Ann Dunham - first. Obama - a mulatto, but, unlike the majority of black Americans are not a descendant of slaves.A young couple was happy, but their union lasted only 3 years. Two years after the birth of his son, his father went to continue studies at Harvard, but Dunham and Obama Jr. will soon returned to Hawaii. Divorce of parents Barak took place in January 1964.During his studies at Harvard, Obama Sr. met with the American teacher Ruth Naydsend (Ruth Nidesand), which after the end of his training had gone to Kenya to the United States. It was his third marriage, which produced two children. Total father was married four times.Subsequently, the fate of Obama Sr. was tragic. At first it was waiting for success - he worked for an oil company, and then was promoted to a senior economist in the government of Kenya to the Ministry of Finance. For criticism of the economic activities of the President, Obama Sr. came to him out of favor, and it came to an end a career. Obama began to drink and fell into poverty. His son, he saw the last time, when Barack was 10 years old. In Kenya, Obama Sr. was in a car accident, as a result of which he lost both legs.When parents divorce, Barack Obama lived in Hawaii with his grandparents. His mother acted in pornographic photo shoots, and therefore parents disowned her. Grandma Madeleine Lee brought the boy for a long time. Barack's grandfather, a dissident and revolutionary; as Obama's father, he fought with the existing political system in Kenya, but was unsuccessful. Torture, disability and two years in prison resulted in a struggle Hussein Onyango Obama and British colonial policy in his country. Soon, his grandson will distribute this policy all over the world ...