Barack Obama Sr.
Kenyan economist (1934–1982)
Summary
Barack Hussein Obama was a Kenyan senior governmental economist and the father of Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States. He is a central figure of his son's memoir, Dreams from My Father (1995). Obama married in 1954 and had two children with his first wife, Kezia. He was selected for a special program to attend college in the United States and studied at the University of Hawaii where he met Ann Dunham, whom he married in 1961 following the conception of his son, Barack. Obama and Dunham divorced three years later. Obama then went to Harvard University for graduate school, where he earned an MA in economics, and returned to Kenya in 1964. He saw his son Barack once more, when his son was about 10.
Originally created by LandOLincoln
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/* top */His legal name never had any suffix, so removing Sr.
"The 44th" reads far better than "a former"
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The detailed ethno-religious background of his third wife is not sufficiently significant important for the intro section. It's already discussed later ([[WP:UNDUE]])
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/* top */It's an improvement as it states all the info in less syllables
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Undid revision [[Special:Diff/1341161602|1341161602]] by [[Special:Contributions/AlphaVictorDelta0107|AlphaVictorDelta0107]] ([[User talk:AlphaVictorDelta0107|talk]]) not an improvement
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Rachuonyo was not located within a village, linked Nyanza Province as it longer exists
Replacing Barack_Obama_Sr._1963.jpg with [[File:Barack_Obama_Sr._1962.jpg]] (by [[commons:User:CommonsDelinker|CommonsDelinker]] because: [[:c:COM:FR|File renamed]]: [[:c:COM:FR#FR1|Criterion 1]] (original uploader’s request)).
pd image (thank you random find a grave user for actually linking a source)
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