Dharmesh darshan biography of barack obama full

It took just one sensational speech in July to make Harvard Law graduate Barack Obama an overnight star.

Obama was elected the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review, prior to graduating magna cum laude in He returned to Chicago in and served as the Missing: dharmesh darshan.

Just three years later the Democratic senator launched his campaign to become first black president of the US. Described by Oprah Winfrey as having a "tongue dipped in the unvarnished truth", the son of a former Kenyan goat-herder has come to embody the hopes and dreams of millions of Americans. Mr Obama's inspirational rhetoric at the Democrat Convention, where he called for party unity and emphasised the traditional American ideals of self-reliance and aspiration, proved to be the making of him.

The Illinois politician had good reason to appreciate the possibilities he saw the US as representing. Unlike members of the Bush family and the Kennedy clan, he had no privileged background or natural springboard into politics. His father, Barack Obama Sr, grew up in Kenya herding goats, and met his mother, Ann Dunham, when he won a university scholarship to study in Hawaii where they were both students.

They married, and Barack Jr was born on August 4, , in Honolulu. While he was still a toddler his father left the family to study at Harvard. Barack Sr later returned to Kenya where, having divorced Ann, he remarried and worked as a government economist. The couple would meet only once again before he died in a car crash.

Barack Obama (born August 4, , Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.) is the 44th president of the United States (–17) and the first African American to hold the office.

When her son was six, Kansas-born Ann married Indonesian Lolo Soetoro and relocated the family to Jakarta where the youngster lived for four years before moving back to Hawaii to live with his grandparents and attend school. A bright, intelligent student he excelled academically and was accepted to study political science at Columbia University in New York after which he put further education on hold while he moved to Chicago in There the future president worked for non-profit groups helping to improve living conditions in poor neighbourhoods.

The committed Christian realised if he really wanted to change the lives of the less fortunate then he would have to get involved at a higher level, however. He went on to earn a law degree from Harvard in , where he became the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review , and returned to Chicago to practice as a civil rights lawyer and teach constitutional law.

It was at the Chicago branch of law firm Sidley Austin that he met his future wife and fellow Harvard law graduate Michelle - the daughter of a secretary and a petrol pump attendant - who was his mentor at the company.