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Senate Years of Service: 2005-2008
Party: Democrat
OBAMA, Barack, a Senator from Illinois and 44th President of the United States;
born in Honolulu, Hawaii, August 4, 1961; obtained early education in Jakarta,
Indonesia, and Hawaii; continued education at Occidental College, Los Angeles,
Calif.; received a B.A. in 1983 from Columbia University, New York City; worked
as a community organizer in Chicago, Ill.; studied law at Harvard University,
where he became the first African American president of the Harvard Law Review,
and received J.D. in 1991; lecturer on constitutional law, University of
Chicago; member, Illinois State senate 1997-2004; elected as a Democrat to the
U.S. Senate in 2004, and served from January 3, 2005, to November 16, 2008,
when he resigned from office, having been elected president; elected as the
44th President of the United States on November 4, 2008, and was inaugurated on
January 20, 2009; reelected in 2012 and served until January 20, 2017.
BibliographyOffice of History and Preservation, Office of the Clerk,
Black Americans in Congress, 1870–2007. Washington,
D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2008; Obama, Barack.
Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance. New
York: Times Books, 1995. Reprint 2004; Obama, Barack.
The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American
Dream. New York: Crown Publishers, 2006.
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