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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.
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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