Obama was a US Senator from Illinois , elected in 2004, when he ran for President. Before that, he held a seat as an Illinois state senator from 1997 to 2004.
Before being elected as President of the United States, Barack Obama was the junior Senator for the State of Illinois.
Joe Biden has never been president. He was a senator before he became vice-president.
Before becoming president, Barack Obama was elected to the Illinois state senate in 1996, and he was then elected to serve as a U.S. Senator from Illinois: he won that election in 2004.
Barack Obama was president of the Harvard Law Review journal before becoming president.
The president who came before Barack Obama was George W. Bush. President Bush was from the Republican Party, and he served two terms in office before Mr. Obama, a Democrat, was elected president in 2008.
In the US Senate.
Hawaii and Illinois
This question was asked before the 2008 election. On November 4, 2008, Barack Obama did in fact get elected America's 44th president. He was re-elected on November 6, 2012.
Barack Obama. Before him it was Richard M Nixon.
No, you are thinking of Barack Obama, who served in the Illinois state senate, and then became a U.S. senator, before becoming president.
He still keeps a house in Chicago which was his residence before he was elected president.
Before he became president, he was a US Senator from Illinois.