Obama I is a central figure of his son's memoir, Dreams from My Father .
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36 Facts About Obama I
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Obama I married in 1954 and had two children with his first wife, Kezia.
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Obama I was selected for a special program to attend college in the United States and studied at the University of Hawaii where he met Stanley Ann Dunham, whom he married in 1961.
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The elder Obama later went to Harvard University for graduate school, where he earned an M A in economics, and returned to Kenya in 1964.
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Obama I saw his son Barack once more, when his son was about 10.
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Obama I first worked for an oil company, before beginning work as an economist with the Kenyan Ministry of Transport.
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Obama I gained a promotion to senior economic analyst in the Ministry of Finance.
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Obama I was fired and blacklisted in Kenya, finding it nearly impossible to get a job.
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Obama I was raised in the village of Nyang'oma Kogelo, Siaya District, Nyanza Province.
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Obama I became a cook for missionaries and a local herbalist in Nairobi.
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Obama I's became pregnant and they were married on the Hawaiian island of Maui on 2 February 1961, despite parental opposition from both families.
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Senior Obama I fathered his last son George in 1982 with Jael Otinyo.
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When Obama I left for the United States, he left behind his young wife, Kezia, and their baby son Malik.
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Obama I initially lived across the street from the university at the Charles H Atherton branch of the YMCA at 1810 University Avenue; public records from 1961 indicate he later had a residence two miles southeast of the university at 625 11th Avenue in the Kaimuki neighborhood.
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In 1960, Obama I met Stanley Ann Dunham in a basic Russian language course at the University of Hawaii and they started dating.
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Obama I married Dunham in Wailuku on the Hawaiian island of Maui on 2 February 1961.
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Obama I eventually told Dunham about his previous marriage in Kenya, but said he was divorced—which she found out years later was not true.
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Obama I's birth was announced in The Honolulu Advertiser and the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, with his parents' address listed as 6085 Kalanianaole Highway in the Kuliouou neighborhood of Honolulu, seven miles east of the university—the rented home of Dunham's parents, Stanley and Madelyn Dunham.
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Obama I graduated from the University of Hawaii after three years with a B A in economics and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.
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Obama I rented an apartment in a rooming house near Central Square in Cambridge.
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In June 1964, Obama I met and began dating a 27-year-old Jewish-American elementary school teacher named Ruth Beatrice Baker, the daughter of prosperous Lithuanian immigrants to the United States.
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Mark said in 2009 that Obama I had been abusive to him, his late brother David, and their mother.
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Obama I first worked as a government economist for an oil company in Kenya.
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In 1965, Obama I published a paper entitled "Problems Facing Our Socialism" in the East Africa Journal, harshly criticizing the blueprint for national planning, "African Socialism and Its Applicability to Planning in Kenya", developed by Tom Mboya's Ministry of Economic Planning and Development.
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In 1970, Obama I was in a serious automobile accident, and was hospitalized for nearly a year.
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30.
Obama I's son recalled Obama giving him his first basketball:.
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31.
Obama I came under suspicion after Tom Mboya was assassinated in 1969, as he had been a protege of the ruler.
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32.
Kenyatta fired Obama I, who was blacklisted in Kenya and found it impossible to get work.
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33.
Obama I later lost both legs in a second serious automobile accident, and subsequently lost his job.
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34.
Obama I's life deteriorated as he struggled with poverty and drinking.
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Obama I was interred in his native village of Nyang'oma Kogelo, Siaya District.
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Obama I's funeral was attended by ministers Robert Ouko, Peter Oloo-Aringo, and other prominent political figures.
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