Barack Obama Birthplace
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Birthplace of President Barack Obama.
Waymark Code: WMHZJ0
Location: Hawaii, United States
Date Posted: 09/01/2013
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President Barack Obama was born at Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children, 1319 Punahou St. Honolulu, HI 96826. He is the only president born in Hawaii.
Barack Hussein Obama II is the 44th and current President of the United States, the first African American to hold the office. Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, Obama is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he was president of the Harvard Law Review. He was a community organizer in Chicago before earning his law degree. He worked as a civil rights attorney in Chicago and taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004. He served three terms representing the 13th District in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004, running unsuccessfully for the United States House of Representatives in 2000.
Kapi'olani Medical Center for Women and Children is part of Hawaii Pacific Health's network of hospitals. It is located in Honolulu, Hawaii, within the residential inner city district of Makiki. The facility was originally founded by Queen Kapi'olani as the Kapi'olani Maternity Home in 1890. She held bazaars and luaus to raise $8,000 needed to start the Home. Kauikeolani Children’s Hospital opened in 1909 named for Emma Kauikeolani Napoleon Mahelona (1862–1931), the wife of Albert Spencer Wilcox (1844–1919). In 1978, it merged with Kapi'olani Hospital to become Kapi'olani Medical Center for Women and Children.
President Name: Barack Obama
Birth Place?: yes
Term Of Office: January 20, 2009 - January 19, 2017
Date of Birth: August 4, 1981
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