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Obama was born on August 4, 1961, [7] at Kapiolani Medical Center in Honolulu, Hawaii . [8] [9] [10] He is the only president born outside of the 48 continental states . [11] Obama's mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, was born in Wichita, Kansas of English descent . Obama's father, Barack Obama, Sr., is from the Luo tribe of Nyan'oma Kogelo, Kenya . The Obamas met in 1960 during a Russian language class at the University of Hawaii in Mānoa ; Obama's father was granted a scholarship to study here. [12] [13]The two were married at Wailuku in Maui on February 2, 1961, [14] [15] and separated when Obama's mother brought her newborn son to Seattle, Washington in late August 1961 to attend the University of Washington in a year. At the same time, Obama, Sr. received a graduate degree in economics from Hawaii in June 1962, and then received a scholarship to graduate study at Harvard University . In March 1964, the two divorced. [16] Obama Sr. returned to Kenya in 1964 and remarried; he visited Hawaii only once in 1982. [17] He died in a car accident in 1982