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Blane Conklin, Ph.D.

Consultant

Publishing Credits

Marcus McArthur, Ph.D.

Dona Herweck Rice, Editor-in-Chief

Department of History

Lee Aucoin, Creative Director

Saint Louis University

Chris McIntyre, M.A.Ed., Editorial Director

Torrey Maloof, Associate Editor

Neri Garcia, Senior Designer

Stephanie Reid, Photo Researcher

Rachelle Cracchiolo, M.S.Ed., Publisher

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On November 4, 2008, Americans elected a new president. He was

a United States senator from the state of Illinois (il-uh-NOI). His

name was Barack Obama.

Just a few years before, most Americans had never heard of

Barack Obama. He was young. He had done most of his work in

Chicago. He knew that running for president would be difficult. But,

he had a way of connecting with people. His message was simple:

change was needed in America, and change would come if people

worked together.

Obama was inaugurated (in-AW-gyuh-rey-ted) as the nations 44th

president on January 20, 2009. He took the oath of office . He gave

a speech on the steps of the Capitol in Washington, DC. Then, he

and his wife, Michelle, led a parade down Pennsylvania Avenue to the

White House.

President Obama giving a speech

He Had a Dream

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once

dreamed of a time when his

children would not be judged

by the color of their skin, but by

the content of their character.

Barack Obama, too, did not

want people to vote for or

against him because of his

color or race. He wanted

people to vote for him because

of his ideas and his character.

The Youngest

President?

Obama is the fifth

youngest person to become

president. He was 47 years

old. The youngest person

to become president was

Theodore Roosevelt. He

was 42 years old when

he was inaugurated.

The United States

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Constitution says that a

person must be at least

Obama was the first African American to

35 years old to become

be president of the United States. In itself, that

president.

was a change. He was from a different political

party than the previous president, George W.

Bush. That was another change. But the man

himself, like the 43 presidents before him, has

his own special story.

Hawaiian Birthday

Barack Obama was born in

Hawaii just two years after

it became a state. It was the

Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii.

50th state and entered the

union on August 21, 1959.

A Big Family

Obamas family in Africa

is part of the Luo (loo-OH)

people. This is an ethnic group

of more than three million

people in Kenya. President

Obama has six half- siblings

from his fathers side and

one halfsibling from his

mothers side.

A young Obama posing with his father

A Different Perspective

Obamas father was a black man from Kenya, a country in

Africa. His name was Barack Hussein (hoo-SEYN) Obama. He

gave this same name to his son. Many members of his family were

Muslims (MUHZ-limz). They practiced the religion of Islam

(is-LAHM). The name Hussein is very common among Muslims.

Obamas mother was a white woman from the state of Kansas.

Her name was Ann Dunham. Her father served in World War II.

Her mother worked in a factory during the war.

The presidents parents met at the University of Hawaii in 1960.

Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, on August 4, 1961. He did

not see much of his father when he was younger. His father had

left Hawaii to attend Harvard

University. Later, Obamas father

returned to Kenya. His father died

in a car accident when Obama was

21 years old. His mother lived until

1995, when she died of cancer.

Being born in a family with both

a black and a white parent was an

unusual thing in the 1960s. It gave

Obama a different perspective from

someone with parents of the same

race. He said that it allowed him to

better understand the differences

between African Americans and

white people in America.

Obama with his mother,

Ann Dunham

A Different Childhood

Obamas parents separated when he was only two years

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