Barack Obama Sr.

Economist and father of Barack Obama Jr. (1934–1982)

  • Fame57.6
  • Momentum0.0
  • Wikipedia58.9K
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Lived 1934–1982, aged 48
AcademicsAcademic
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    30 languages
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  • Era
    1934–1982
    Aged 48
Summary
Updated 2026-06-09

The father of a future president, seen by that son exactly once after age two — a Harvard-trained economist whose clashes with Jomo Kenyatta ended his career and left him blacklisted in the country he'd returned to serve.

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Born Baraka Hussein Obama in Kenya in 1934, he married Kezia in 1954 and had two children before a fellowship brought him to the University of Hawaii, where he met Ann Dunham. They married in 1961 after she became pregnant with Barack, divorced three years later, and Obama moved to Harvard for a master's in economics. He returned to Kenya in 1964, saw his son once when the boy was about ten, and married Ruth Beatrice Baker, with whom he had two sons before they divorced in 1973. He rose to senior economic analyst in the Ministry of Finance, part of a Western-educated cohort supported by Tom Mb…

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    wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org
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    wikidata · wikidata.org
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