Barack Obama Sr., Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Kenyan economist
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Place of Birth: Nyang'oma Kogelo, Nyanza Province, Kenya
About Barack Obama Sr.
- Barack Hussein Obama Sr.
- (; 18 June 1936 – 24 November 1982) was a Kenyan senior governmental economist and the father of Barack Obama, the 44th President of the United States.
- He is a central figure of his son's memoir, Dreams from My Father (1995).
- Obama married in 1954 and had two children with his first wife, Kezia.
- He was selected for a special program to attend college in the United States and studied at the University of Hawaii.
- There, Obama met Stanley Ann Dunham, whom he married in 1961, and with whom he had a son, Barack II.
- She divorced him three years later.
- The elder Obama later went to Harvard University for graduate school, where he earned an M.A.
- in economics, and returned to Kenya in 1964.
- He saw his son Barack once more, when he was about ten. In late 1964, Obama Sr.
- married Ruth Beatrice Baker, a Jewish-American woman whom he had met in Massachusetts.
- They had two sons together before separating in 1971 and divorcing in 1973.
- Obama first worked for an oil company, before beginning work as an economist with the Kenyan Ministry of Transport.
- He gained a promotion to senior economic analyst in the Ministry of Finance.
- He was among a cadre of young Kenyan men who had been educated in the West in a program supported by Tom Mboya.
- Obama Sr.
- had conflicts with Kenyan President Jomo Kenyatta, which adversely affected his career.
- He was fired and blacklisted in Kenya, finding it nearly impossible to get a job.
- Obama Sr.
- was involved in three serious car accidents during his final years; he died as a result of the last one in 1982.
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