Barack Obama

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Barack Obama

Barack Obama personal relations:

Robert B. Barnett - attorney

George H.W. Bush - tenth cousin

George W. Bush - tenth cousin once removed

Cassandra Q. Butts - law school friend

Richard B. Cheney - ninth cousin, distant relative

Winston Churchill - ninth cousin 3 times removed

Ann Dunham - mother

Madelyn Payne Dunham - maternal grandmother

Gerald R. Ford - tenth cousin

Michael B.G. Froman - law school friend

Julius Genachowski - law school friend

Robert Gibbs - communications director

Crystal Nix Hines - law school friend

Lyndon B. Johnson - fourth cousin 3 times removed

Emil Jones Jr. - mentor

Rachel Klayman - editor

Robert E. Lee - fifth cousin 8 times removed

James Madison - third cousin 9 times removed

Brian P. Mathis - law school friend

Nancy L. McCullough - law school friend

Jonathan T. Molot - law school friend

Martin Nesbitt - friend

Barack Obama Sr. - father

Michelle Obama - spouse

Sarah Hussein Obama - paternal grandmother

Thomas J. Perrelli - law school friend

Brad Pitt - ninth cousin

James Reynolds Jr. - friend, neighbor

Antoin Rezko - contributor

Pete Rouse - Senate chief of staff

Maya Soetoro-Ng - sister

Harry S. Truman - seventh cousin 3 times removed

Other current Barack Obama relationships:

2006 Alexi Giannoulias state treasurer campaign - endorsed

2008 Barack Obama presidential campaign - candidate

2008 Tobacco Regulation bill - co-sponsor

Audacity of Hope - author

Bill Gates "last day" video - featured in

Congressional Black Caucus - member

Crown Publishing - author

Matthew Santos - modeled on

Muckety List of Most Networked in Chicago, 2008 - in top 100

Saddleback Civil Forum (8/16/2008) - participant

Senate Committee on Foreign Relations - member

Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions - member

Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs - member

Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs - member

Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations - member

U.S. Senate - senator

Yes We Can video - featured

Barack Obama past relationships:

2004 Barack Obama U.S. Senate campaign - candidate

Davis Miner Barnhill & Galland - associate

Harvard Law Review - president

Charles J. Ogletree Jr. - college mentor

Samantha Power - aide

Sidley Austin LLP - intern

Laurence Tribe - research assistant

Trinity United Church of Christ (Chicago) - parishioner

Woods Fund of Chicago - director

Additional information about Barack Obama on Muckety

Additional information about Barack Obama on the Web

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From Chicago’s South Side to the Senate: The political education of Barack Obama

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Chicago Muckety: 100 most networked people

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