Barack Obama Trivia

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Wins Nobel Peace Prize on October 9, 2009.

First president to use email in office.
Made mistake in inauguration speech. He is not the 44th man
to hold the office. (He is the 43rd. He is the 44th president.
Grover Cleveland was elected twice in terms that were not
consecutive.)
Secret Service code name is Renegade.
Is left-handed.
Would have liked to be an architect.
Reportedly ate dog meat while in Indonesia.
Also had a pet ape Tata while in Indonesia as well.
Born in Honolulu, HI.
Graduated from Punahou High School, Honolulu.
Likes Spider Man comics.
Wife Michelle, maiden name Robinson.
Worked in Baskin-Robbins Ice Cream as a teenager.
Graduated from Harvard with law degree.
Taught at the University of Chicago.
Father from Kenya.
Defeated Alan Keyes for US Senate.
Has 2 daughters, Malia and Sasha.
Quit smoking shortly before his presidential run.
First black president of The Harvard Law Review.
Lived in Indonesia as a child.
Middle name is Hussein.
Mother Ann Dunham from Wichita, Kansas.
Parents divorced.
Step father Lolo Soetoro.
Has half sister Maya.
Went by Barry as a young man.
His real father died in a car accident in 1982.
Attended Occidental College in Los Angeles for 2 years.
Liked to play basketball before elections.
Received degree in political science in 1983 from Colombia University, NY.
Started law school in 1988.
Was a lawyer in the firm Miner, Barnhill & Galland.
Also worked for the firm Sidley & Austin.
Ran, but lost, in bid for House of Representative seat in 2000.
Delivered keynote speech at the democratic convention in 2004.
Decided to run for president in February, 2007, at least publicly.
Barack means Blessed by God in Arabic.
Won a Grammy Award for his audio book, Dreams From my Father.
Won another for The Audacity of Hope.
Took Michelle on first date to see, Do the Right Thing.
Likes to play a hand of poker now and then.
Is related to Lon Chaney and Robert Duvall.
City in Japan is named Obama.
Only the 5th African-American elected to Senate.

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The picture at the right is Barack Obama's current house.

Barack Obama's father is from the village of Kogelo, Kenya.

Barack Obama was born in Hawaii and lived with his mother and grandmother on the tenth floor of an apartment building at 1617 S. Beretania Street in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Barack Obama's mother remarried and they lived on Haji Ramli Tengah street in Jakarta, Indonesia. Later they moved to a better place on Taman Amir Hamza Street.

Barack Obama while at Columbia University, New York lived in apartments at 622 w. 114th Street and also at 334 e. 94th Street.

While at Harvard, Barack Obama lived in an apartment at 365 Broadway in Somerville, Massachusetts.

Barack Obama moved back to Chicago after law school. He now lives at 5046 South Greenwood Avenue.

Jeremiah Wright's church is located at 400 w. 95 Street, Chicago, Trinity United.

Barack Obama's barber is located in the Hyde Park Salon and Barber Shop at 5234 s. Blackstone Avenue.

Of course, Barack Obama's new address will be 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

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