| Barrack Hussein Obama was
born Aug. 4, 1961, in Honolulu, Hawaii. His father, Barrack Obama, Sr.,
was born of Luo ethnicity in Nyanza Province, Kenya. He grew up herding
goats with his own father, who was a domestic servant to the British.
Although reared among Muslims, Obama, Sr., became an atheist at some
point. Obama's mother, Ann Dunham, grew up in
Wichita, Kansas. Her father worked on oil rigs during the Depression.
After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, he signed up for service in
World War II and marched across Europe in Patton's army. Dunham's mother
went to work on a bomber assembly line. After the war, they studied on the
G.I. Bill, bought a house through the Federal Housing Program, and moved
to Hawaii.
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