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WASHINGTON — Hailing the nation’s "patchwork heritage,” Barack Hussein Obama, the son of a Kenyan and a Kansan, succeeded George W. Bush in the White House on Tuesday and began a new era in American government.
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Background: The president
Barack Obama, who was born in Hawaii to a Kenyan father who did little to raise his son, and a mother whose family hailed from Kansas, went to some of the nation’s finest colleges before moving to Chicago and working as a lawyer and volunteering in his community. He served in the Illinois Legislature before winning a U.S. Senate seat in 2004. Marking a new page In U.S. history
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Background: The president
Barack Obama, who was born in Hawaii to a Kenyan father who did little to raise his son, and a mother whose family hailed from Kansas, went to some of the nation’s finest colleges before moving to Chicago and working as a lawyer and volunteering in his community. He served in the Illinois Legislature before winning a U.S. Senate seat in 2004. Marking a new page In U.S. history
Commemorate President Barack Obama’s inauguration with a poster or T-shirt featuring today’s front page of The Oklahoman. Go to www.classicheadlines.com/ok.html to buy your page of history. Also, for the "Obama: The Historic Front Pages” book, a photomosaic poster of Obama or Associated Press photos from a featured photo collection, go to www.newsok.com/obama
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