Kenyatta is the first son of Kenya's founding father and first president Jomo Kenyatta. Uhuru attended St Mary's School in Nairobi. Between 1979 and 1980, he also briefly worked as a teller at the Kenya Commercial Bank.After his Uhuru went on to study political science at Amherst College in the United States.
Upon his graduation, Uhuru returned to Kenya, and started a company Wilham Kenya Limited, through which he sourced and exported agricultural produce.Uhuru met his dear wife Margret in Mombasa and they later on tied the knot at Holy Family Basilica in Nairobi in 1989.
He entered the political scene when he was nominated to Parliament in 2001, he became Minister for Local Government under President Daniel arap Moi. Despite his political inexperience he was favored by President Moi as his successor when he retired in 2002.
Kenyatta ran as KANU's candidate presidential election, but lost to opposition candidate Mwai Kibaki.. He subsequently became Leader of the Opposition in Parliament. He backed Kibaki for re-election in the December 2007 presidential election and was named Minister of Local Government by Kibaki in January 2008, before becoming Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Trade in April 2008 as part of a coalition government.
Subsequently Kenyatta was Minister of Finance from 2009 to 2012, while remaining Deputy Prime Minister. He was elected as President of Kenya in the March 2013 presidential election, defeating Raila Odinga with a narrow majority in a single round of voting.
He was subsequently declared the fourth President of the Republic of Kenya
by the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC)
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