He actually had more than two: he was a community organizer and advocate for the poor; he was a lawyer; he was a professor of law; he was an Illinois State Senator, and he was a United States senator.
Senator
Barack Obama was president of the Harvard Law Review journal before becoming president.
The same as it is now that he became president .
No Obama was the first black president.
Many different Presidents had done their own things before they became President. Please specify the president. If speaking of the current US President Barack Obama, he was a senator from Illinois before he became the President. If speaking of Nelson Mandela from South Africa, he was a political prisoner in jail before he became the President. If speaking of Paul Biya in Cameroon, he was the Prime Minister before he became the 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.
The attacks of 9/11 took place in 2001, years before the Obama's election.
In the US Senate.
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Hawaii and Illinois
The previous president was George W. Bush.
He became president on the 20th of January in 2009.