Columbia University
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Columbia University in the City of New York, commonly referred to as Columbia University, is a private Ivy League research university in New York City, United States. Established in 1754 as King's Col
Samuel Johnson, the first president of Columbia
King's College Hall in 1790
Low Memorial Library, c. 1900
Alma Mater, by Daniel Chester French (1903)
Barack Obama
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Barack Hussein Obama II is an American former politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the first African American to
Columbia University
…Theodore Roosevelt and Franklin Delano Roosevelt attended the law school. Other political figures educated at Columbia include former U.S. President Barack Obama, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court Ruth Bader Ginsburg,, William O. Douglas, Supreme Court Justice and former Chairman of the Securities and…
Official portrait, 2012
Obama (right) with grandfather Stanley Armour Dunham, mother Ann Dunham, and half-sister Maya Soetoro, mid-1970s in Honolulu
Obama's Indonesian school record in St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Elementary School. He was enrolled as "Barry Soetoro" (no. 1), and wrongly recorded as an Indonesian citizen (no. 3) and a Muslim (no. 4).
Obama poses in the Green Room of the White House with wife Michelle and daughters Sasha and Malia in September 2009