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President-Elect Barack H. Obama |
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On Tuesday, November 4, 2008, the people of the United States of America elected Barack Hussein Obama, the 44th President of the United States. It is a day and a moment in history that will be forever etched in our memory. The New York City Retired Guardians Fraternal Association take this opportunity to Spotlight President-elect Barack Obama. Mr. Obama was born on August 4, 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii to Kenyan born Barack Obama, Sr. and American born Ann Obama (nee Dunham). His parents divorced when he was two and his mother remarried and in 1967 moved to Jakarta, Indonesia where he attended school. At the age of 10, he returned to Hawaii to live with his maternal grandparents, Madelyn and Stanley Dunham. He was enrolled in the 5th grade at the prestigious Punahou Academy and graduated with honors in 1979. He was one of only three black students in the school. It was there that he first became conscious of racism and what it meant to be African American. Following high school Barack studied at Occidental College in Los Angeles, Ca. for two years. He then transferred to Columbia University in New York, where he graduated in 1983 with a degree in Political Science. In 1985 he moved to Chicago and worked as a Community Organizer. In 1988 he entered Harvard Law School and in February 1990 he was elected the first African-American editor of the Harvard Law Review. He graduated magna cum laude in 1991. After law school Mr. Obama returned to Chicago to practice as a civil rights lawyer, joining the firm of Miner, Barnhill & Galland. He also taught at the University of Chicago Law School and helped organize voter registration during Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign. It was at the law firm that he met and later married the ‘love of his life’, Michelle Robinson. In 1996 Mr. Obama successfully ran for the state senate where he served three terms before being elected, in November 2004, to the United States Senate. In early 2006 he announced his candidacy for President of the United States and after a very long and bitter primary battle and an even harsher and very negative presidential campaign, won by a landslide on the evening of November 4, 2008. |
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