Barack Obama Sr.

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'''Barack Hussein Obama Sr.''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|b|ær|ə|k|_|h|uː|ˈ|s|eɪ|n|_|oʊ|ˈ|b|ɑː|m|ə}};Sally H. Jacobs. ''The Other Barack''. PublicAffairs. 2011. [https://www.npr.org/2011/07/11/137553552/president-obamas-father-a-bold-and-reckless-life Excerpt at NPR.org] Retrieved 16 September 2011. Quote: "The Old Man had also been called Barack, but his was a working man's name, with the emphasis on the first syllable."[http://podfuse-dl.andomedia.com/800185/podfuse-origin.andomedia.com/citadel_origin/pods/WABC/WABC-Batchelor/jbs_091611a.mp3 Interview of Sally H. Jacobs by John Batchelor.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120318075234/http://podfuse-dl.andomedia.com/800185/podfuse-origin.andomedia.com/citadel_origin/pods/WABC/WABC-Batchelor/jbs_091611a.mp3 |date=18 March 2012 }} ''[[The John Batchelor Show]]''. 16 July 2011 (19:10–19:50). Retrieved 16 September 2011. born '''Baraka Hussein Obama''',Jacobs (2011), [https://archive.org/details/otherbarackboldr0000jaco/page/26 p. 26]: Her brother Baraka, as she [Hawa Auma] recalls, converted to Christianity when he was about six years old and changed his name to the more Christian-sounding Barack because the Christian missionaries at the early schools that he attended insisted that he do so. 18 June 1934Maraniss (2012), [https://books.google.com/books?id=Wnna9CLtblAC&pg=PT65 p. 65]: He had been born inside the euphorbia hedges of the K'obama homestead on 18 June 1934.Liberties (2012), [https://books.google.com/books?id=8d9NAAAAQBAJ&pg=SL1-PA202 p. 202]: His birth date is questionable since most of the documents he filled out during his United States student visa list 18 June 1934; however, his son's book ''Dreams of My Father'' states his birth date was 18 June 1936. Immigration and Naturalization Service records also indicate his birth date to be 18 June 1934, thereby making Obama twenty-seven during his son's birth instead of the annotated twenty-five on the birth certificate. – 24 November 1982) was a Kenyan senior governmental economist and the father of [[Barack Obama]], a former [[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]] where he met [[Ann Dunham]], whom he married in 1961 following the conception of his son, Barack. Obama and Dunham divorced three years later.{{cite web|last1=Cejka|first1=T. Diane|title=Obama Immigration Records FOIA Requests|url=https://www.scribd.com/doc/74212035/Obama-Immigration-Records-FOIA-requests|via=Scribd|publisher=H. S. Mathers|access-date=25 September 2015|page=115|date=30 November 2011}} Obama then went to [[Harvard University]] for graduate school, where he earned an MA in economics, and returned to Kenya in 1964. He saw his son Barack once more, when his son was about 10.

'''Barack Hussein Obama Sr.''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|b|ær|ə|k|_|h|uː|ˈ|s|eɪ|n|_|oʊ|ˈ|b|ɑː|m|ə}};Sally H. Jacobs. ''The Other Barack''. PublicAffairs. 2011. [https://www.npr.org/2011/07/11/137553552/president-obamas-father-a-bold-and-reckless-life Excerpt at NPR.org] Retrieved 16 September 2011. Quote: "The Old Man had also been called Barack, but his was a working man's name, with the emphasis on the first syllable."[http://podfuse-dl.andomedia.com/800185/podfuse-origin.andomedia.com/citadel_origin/pods/WABC/WABC-Batchelor/jbs_091611a.mp3 Interview of Sally H. Jacobs by John Batchelor.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120318075234/http://podfuse-dl.andomedia.com/800185/podfuse-origin.andomedia.com/citadel_origin/pods/WABC/WABC-Batchelor/jbs_091611a.mp3 |date=18 March 2012 }} ''[[The John Batchelor Show]]''. 16 July 2011 (19:10–19:50). Retrieved 16 September 2011. born '''Baraka Hussein Obama''',Jacobs (2011), [https://archive.org/details/otherbarackboldr0000jaco/page/26 p. 26]: Her brother Baraka, as she [Hawa Auma] recalls, converted to Christianity when he was about six years old and changed his name to the more Christian-sounding Barack because the Christian missionaries at the early schools that he attended insisted that he do so. 18 June 1934Maraniss (2012), [https://books.google.com/books?id=Wnna9CLtblAC&pg=PT65 p. 65]: He had been born inside the euphorbia hedges of the K'obama homestead on 18 June 1934.Liberties (2012), [https://books.google.com/books?id=8d9NAAAAQBAJ&pg=SL1-PA202 p. 202]: His birth date is questionable since most of the documents he filled out during his United States student visa list 18 June 1934; however, his son's book ''Dreams of My Father'' states his birth date was 18 June 1936. Immigration and Naturalization Service records also indicate his birth date to be 18 June 1934, thereby making Obama twenty-seven during his son's birth instead of the annotated twenty-five on the birth certificate. – 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]] where he met [[Ann Dunham]], whom he married in 1961 following the conception of his son, Barack. Obama and Dunham divorced three years later.{{cite web|last1=Cejka|first1=T. Diane|title=Obama Immigration Records FOIA Requests|url=https://www.scribd.com/doc/74212035/Obama-Immigration-Records-FOIA-requests|via=Scribd|publisher=H. S. Mathers|access-date=25 September 2015|page=115|date=30 November 2011}} Obama then went to [[Harvard University]] for graduate school, where he earned an MA in economics, and returned to Kenya in 1964. He saw his son Barack once more, when his son was about 10.

In late 1964, Obama married [[Ruth Beatrice Baker]], an American woman 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 was promoted to senior economic analyst in the [[Ministry of Finance (Kenya)|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 had conflicts with [[President of Kenya|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 was involved in three serious car accidents during his final years; he died as a result of the last one in 1982.

In late 1964, Obama married [[Ruth Beatrice Baker]], an American woman 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 was promoted to senior economic analyst in the [[Ministry of Finance (Kenya)|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 had conflicts with [[President of Kenya|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 was involved in three serious car accidents during his final years; he died as a result of the last one in 1982.