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Meet Barack Obama
On November 4, 2008, there was an election. Barack Obama was elected president of the United States. He was the first African-American to be elected president of the U.S.
Barack Obama was born August 4, 1961. He was born in Hawaii. His mother was white. His father was black. His father was from Africa. His parents met while they were both students in college in Hawaii. Later they got a divorce. Their son was three years old.
President Obama's mother remarried. The new family lived in Indonesia. When Barack was ten years old, he went back to Hawaii. He lived there with his grandparents. His family wanted him to go to better schools.
