President Obama requested and received an exception to Hawaii’s standard procedure to issue a computer-generated, somewhat-limited modern form of Certificate of Live Birth, and received a copy of his original Certificate of Live Birth, filed with Hawaii’s Department of Health on August 8, 1961. Of note, unlike the computer-generated version, the original lists the actual location of Obama’s birth, Kapiolani Maternity and Gynecology Hospital in Honolulu, Hawaii, and the signature of a doctor at the hospital who witnessed his birth (likely the one who delivered Obama, though the line on which he signed is labeled “attendant”).
In case you were wondering what it takes to get a copy of the original Certificate of Live Birth out of Hawaii, the White House provided the correspondence between Obama, his private lawyer, and Hawaii Director of Health Loretta J. Fuddy.
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