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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—Illinois / USBarack OBAMA
(1961- )
Senate Years of Service:
2005-2008Party: DemocratOBAMA, 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.
Bibliography
Office 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.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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