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Barack Obama II was born in in Hawaii. They had met while they were both students at the University of Hawaii. Obama Sr. Ann later married a man named Lolo Soetoro, another student at the University of Hawaii who was from Indonesia. He graduated with a degree in political science in Obama had several different jobs after completing college.

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He worked as a researcher for a year at a business consulting firm. Next, he became a community organizer in the South Side of Chicago. As an organizer, Obama thought he could accomplish more with a law degree. He decided to study at Harvard University. At Harvard, Obama was an exceptional student. He was the first African American to become the president of a prestigious journal called the Harvard Law Review.

His historic accomplishment got national attention, and Obama received a contract to write a book about race relations. He later directed Illinois Project Vote, which aimed to encourage more black voters to vote in the election. After that, he became an attorney with a civil rights law firm and a lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School.

After his first year at Harvard, Obama had a summer internship at a law firm called Sidley and Austin.