Main article : Early life and career of Barack Hussein Obama
Obama claims to have been born in Honolulu, Hawaii on August 4, 1961 to Stanley Ann Dunham and Barack Obama Sr.—who had married just six months prior.  Some contend that this story is a complete fabrication. After many leading conservatives—including the leadership of this site and Donald Trump—called for Obama to release his birth certificate he produced a document that he claimed was his birth certificate on April 27, 2011. Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County in Arizona conducted an investigation of Obama’s eligibility and questioned whether the alleged “birth certificate” was a fake; however, no charges have been filed. Obama was reportedly assigned a social security number whose area code was assigned to applications coming from zip codes in Connecticut.

As an interesting side note, the Hawaii official (Loretta Fuddy, State Health Department Director) who verified Barack Obama’s birth certificate died in a plane crash.[17] Besides Fuddy, Health Department Deputy Director Keith Yamamoto was also on board. The plane’s engine had failed right after take off and crashed about a half-mile off Molokai’s north shore on Dec 11, 2013 at about 4:00 p.m. Interestingly enough, Health Director Loretta Fuddy was the only death of the nine people on board; she died of “cardiac arrhythmia”.

The original claims that Obama was born in Kenya come from the Obamas themselves. In 1991, Obama’s literary agent, Acton & Dystel, published a promotional booklet that stated that Obama was born in Kenya.[18] The claim that Obama was born in Kenya remained on the agent’s web site until 2007.[19] Internet archives confirm this information.[20] In addition to the information from literary agents, Michelle Obama stated in a speech that Kenya is Obama’s “homeland”.[21]

Barack Obama Sr. was not a citizen of the United States. At the time of Obama’s birth, Kenya was a British colony, meaning that not only was Obama Sr. a British subject, but he passed that status on to his son. When Kenya gained independence, Obama and his father both ceased to be British subjects and became Kenyan citizens. Barack Obama was a dual citizen of the United States and Kenya until his Kenyan citizenship automatically expired in 1984, as he had failed to renounce US nationality and swear loyalty to Kenya. Even if he had been born with US citizenship through his mother, it has been argued that as he was born with dual nationality, he is not a natural-born citizen of the United States and thus constitutionally ineligible to become President. Despite this, no court that has considered such arguments has accepted the proposition that Obama is not a natural-born citizen

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