Barack Obama sworn in as President 
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BACK TO HOMEPAGE Barack Obama born August 4, 1961) is the 44th and current President of the United States, the first African American to hold the office. Barack Obama served as the junior United States Senator from Illinois from January 2005 until he resigned after his election to the presidency in November 2008. Barack Obama is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he was the president of the Harvard Law Review. He was a community organizer in Chicago before earning his law degree. Obama worked as a civil rights attorney in Chicago and also taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004. Barack Obama served three terms in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004. Following an unsuccessful bid for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives in 2000, Obama ran for United States Senate in 2004. His victory, from a crowded field, in the March 2004 Democratic primary raised his visibility. His prime-time televised keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in July 2004 made him a rising star nationally in the Democratic Party. He was elected to the U.S. Senate in November 2004 by the largest margin in the history of Illinois. Barack Obama began his run for the presidency in February 2007. In the 2008 general election, Obama was inaugurated as president on January 20, 2009. |
