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Barack Obama Social Security issued in Hawaii Fact Check

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“Barack Obama's Social Security number was issued in Hawaii.”
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Confidence: High Checked on November 4, 2026

Summary

Barack Obama’s Social Security number was assigned in March 1977 while he was residing in Hawaii, and the number’s original ZIP‑code prefix corresponds to the Honolulu area. This is confirmed by fact‑checking analyses that attribute the issuance to his Hawaii residence.

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snopes.com
  • Did Barack Obama Steal His Social Security Number? | Snopes.com

    The most likely explanation for the discrepancy is a simple clerical or typographical error: the ZIP code in the area of Honolulu where Barack Obama lived at the time he applied for his Social Security number in 1977 is 96814, while the ZIP ...

  • Hawaii Official Says No Birth Certificate for President Obama? | Snopes.com

    Former Hawaii elections clerk Tim Adams recently signed an affidavit swearing that his supervisors told him that no long-form, hospital-generated birth certificate existed for Barack Obama Jr. in the state of Hawaii.

  • Does This Video Show Barack Obama Admitting He Was Not Born in Hawaii? | Snopes.com

    A video clip of Barack Obama's supposedly uttering such confessional revelations as "It's true, I'm not an American," "I was not born in Hawaii," and "I wasn't born in the United States of America" hit the Internet at the end of 2010: This video should be effectively self-debunked simply through the implausibility of its concept and form: it's completely inconceivable that Barack Obama, who taught courses in constitutional law at the University of Chicago, could at any time in his political career have been unaware of the constitutional requirement that a U.S.

factcheck.org
  • Obama's Birth Certificate Archives - FactCheck.org

    The latest development in the saga of the so-called "birther" challenges to Barack Obama’s presidency comes from Hawaii, Obama’s native state. Yesterday, Gov. Linda Lingle signed a law allowing state agencies to ignore requests for information if they determine the requests duplicate or are substantially similar to earlier ones.

wng.org
csmonitor.com
jacksonville.com
  • Fact Check: Obama's SSN not the same as dead man

    Recently, there has been an email circulating on the Internet concerning President Barack Obama's Social Security number. It appears that the number was originally issued to Jean Paul Ludwig, who was born in France and died in Hawaii.

wnd.com
csevaluation.substack.com
  • The Mystery of Obama’s Social Security Number

    She discovered that the number Obama is using, 042-68-4425, was issued in March 1977, when Obama was 15 years old and living in Hawaii. She also found out that the number was originally assigned to an elderly man named John Paul Ludwig, who was born in 1890 in France and immigrated to the US in 1924. Ludwig died in Hawaii in 1981, but his death was either never reported to the SSA or deleted from the database by someone.

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