As the first African American president of the United States of America, Barack Obama was voted during the election in November 2008 and his inauguration took place on 20 January 2009. This made him the 44th President of the United States.
Obama was born in the state of Hawaii on 4th August 1961. He is the first ever president to have been born in Hawaii.
His parents divorced when he was only 3 years old. His mother remarried to an Indonesian man and when he returned to his native Indonesia in 1967, Obama and his mother went with him. He spent four years in Indonesia between the ages of 6 and 10, where he attended school. However he returned to Hawaii to live with his Grandparents in 1971 when his mother decided she did not want him growing up in Indonesia. He has said that during his time in Indonesia, many of his friends were urchins living on the street. He also had a pet ape which went by the name of Tata.
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