While both of his parents are now deceased, he was born with a mother and father. His mother's name was Stanley Ann Dunham and she was from Wichita, KS. She conceived Barack while a student at the Univ. of Hawaii in Honolulu. She died of ovarian cancer at the age of 52 in 1995.
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Two major influences in Barack Obama's life that encouraged him to be President were his mother and Nelson Mandela. His mother instilled in him a sense of public service.
Barack Obama's mother is deceased; she died of cancer in 1995 in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Barack Obama's heroes are mostly just Abraham Lincoln and his mother.
His biological father was from Kenya. His mother was from Kansas. President Obama was born in Hawaii in the US. His stepfather, the man his mother married after the first marriage to Pres. Obama's biological father, was from Indonesia and Barack Obama lived there with his mother and stepfather until he went to live with his grandparents after her death.
Aside from President Obama, Michelle Obama, and their children Malia and Sasha, the President's mother-in-law (Michelle's mother) will live in residence.
President Obama's mother died several years ago.
president Barack Obama has a kind and and loving sprit like his mother.
No. He is an American with a father from Kenya and mother from Hawaii.
[the late] Stanley Ann Dunham
Obama's mother was a U.S. citizen AND he was born in the U.S., in the State of Hawaii. Constitutionally, it is the fact that he was born on U.S. soil that makes him a U.S. citizen (not that his mother was a U.S. citizen).
His father, Barack Hussein Obama Sr., was from Kenya. His mother, Ann Dunham, was from Kansas.