Barack Obama Sr. educated at Harvard University
Harvard University
Obama Sr. was offered a scholarship to study in New York City, but declined it. In September 1962, after a tour of mainland U.S. universities, Obama Sr. traveled to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he began a graduate fellowship in economics at Harvard University. He rented an apartment in a rooming house near Central Square in Cambridge. Meanwhile, Dunham and their son returned to Honolulu in the latter half of 1962. In January 1964, Dunham filed for divorce in Honolulu which was not contested by Obama; they were divorced on 20 March 1964, whereupon Ann Dunham was granted sole custody of their son.Obama was forced to leave his PhD program at Harvard University in May 1964 (and received an M.A. in economics from Harvard in 1965). In June 1964, Obama 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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