Barack Obama was born on August 4, 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii. His mother was from Kansas and his father was from Kenya.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
During his presidential campaign in 2008, rumors about Obama’s birthplace arose. The BBC attributes the initial questions to “disgruntled Clinton supporters” who wanted Hillary Clinton to receive the Democratic nomination. In 2011, Donald Trump began to question the legitimacy of Obama’s US birth certificate. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Some have said Obama was ineligible to hold the office of President of the United States of America based on conspiracy theories that he was born not in Hawaii but in Kenya.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To better understand whether President Barack Obama was born in Hawaii or in a foreign country, in early 2012 we contacted the Hawaii State Public Library System and requested copies of newspapers for the dates they published [if they did] the birth announcement of Barack Hussein Obama. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In response to our question, we received copies of the following from the Hawaii State Public Library System:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On September 16, 2016, Donald Trump (then a candidate for President of the United States) said, “President Barack Obama was born in the United States, period.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Additional source documentation to the above:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n 1. Anthony Zurcher, \u201cThe birth of the Obama ‘birther’ conspiracy,\u201d bbc.com, September 16, 2016<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2. Lily Rothman, \u201cThis Is How the Whole Birther Thing Actually Started,\u201d time.com, September 16, 2016<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Barack Obama was born on August 4, 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii. His mother was from Kansas and his father was from Kenya. During his presidential campaign in 2008, rumors about Obama’s birthplace arose. The BBC attributes the initial questions to “disgruntled Clinton supporters” who wanted Hillary Clinton to receive the Democratic nomination. In 2011, Donald […]<\/p>\n