He was a student.
Barack Obama, II (the president): Honolulu, Hawaii, which has been an American State since 1959. Barack Obama, Sr. (the president's father): Kenya
He came to the United States in September 1959 to study at the University of Hawaii.
Barack Obama's father came to the US (to Hawaii) as an exchange student in 1959. It was in Hawaii that he met Ann Dunham, and the two of them married. In 1961, Barack Obama II was born in Honolulu.
Absolutely. He was born in Hawaii. Hawaii became a state in 1959, and he was born there in 1961.
President Barack Obama never lived in Africa. His father, also named Barack Obama (1936-1982) lived in Africa (Kenya) most of his life. He went to college in the US (first in Hawaii and then, later, in Massachusetts) from 1959 to 1965.
No-- President Obama graduated from high school in Honolulu, Hawaii and then went to college in California and New York. But if you are asking about his father, who had the same name as the president, Barack Sr. did come to the US from Kenya in 1959 and studied at the University of Hawaii. There, he met Ann Dunham, they married, and in 1961, their son (the future president) was born.
He was born in Hawaii, which had become a state in 1959. Mr. Obama was born in 1961. He spent the first five years of his life in Hawaii, then spent the next five in Indonesia with his mom and new step-dad, after which he returned to Hawaii to finish middle school and high school.
There have been a variety of important events that have happened in Hawaii. These include the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii became the last state in 1959, and future President, Barack Obama, was born in Hawaii.
August 21,1959
Hawaii became a state in August 21, 1959 In 1959.
The last state to enter the Union was Hawaii in 1959.
Hawaii, August 21, 1959.