What kind of work did Barack Obama do after college?

Answer 1

After graduating from Columbia in 1983, he was hired by a Catholic-run charity in Chicago, Illinois, where he was a community organizer and advocate for the poor. He worked for five years and then went Harvard Law School, graduating with academic honors in 1991. He moved back to Chicago and worked as a civil rights attorney as well as teaching law for nearly twelve years at the University of Chicago Law School. He entered politics in 1996, serving three terms in the Illinois state senate, before becoming a U.S. Senator in 2004. He also married in 1992, and he wrote two best-selling books. In 2007, he launched his campaign for the presidency, and was elected in 2008.

Answer 2

He worked as a community organizer and advocate for the poor; taught at the University of Chicago Law School; was a civil rights attorney; a state senator from Illinois, and then a U.S. Senator. He was also the author of two best-selling books.

Answer 3

The future president took time off from schooling after he got his bachelor's degree in political science from Columbia University in 1983. He worked as a community organizer and an advocate for the poor in Chicago, before deciding to return to school and get a law degree, which he received from Harvard in 1991.

Answer 4

After graduating from Harvard with his JD (Doctor of Laws) in 1991, Mr. Obama worked as a civil rights lawyer and as a community organizer in Chicago. He also taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School. He married Michelle Robinson (a fellow attorney and a businesswoman) in 1992, and they had two daughters. Mr. Obama decided to enter politics, and ran for office in 1996; he was elected to the Illinois state senate and began a political career, getting re-elected to the state senate twice before running for the U.S. senate and winning in 2004.

Answer 5

He was a civil rights attorney for a small Chicago law firm. He also taught courses at the University of Chicago Law School for twelve years. In 1996, he decided to run for office, which is when his political career began, when he became an Illinois state senator. He served three terms and then was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2004. He won the presidency in 2008.

Answer 6

Upon graduation, he was hired by Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland, a Chicago law firm specializing in civil rights law; he was also a professor of constitutional law at the University of Chicago. He later became an Illinois State Senator and was re-elected several times; and in 2004, he became a US Senator from Illinois.

Answer 7

He worked as a community organizer and advocate for the poor in Chicago. He was also a professor of law at the University of Chicago. Then, he decided to enter politics, and he became an Illinois state senator and then a U.S. senator. He also wrote two best-selling books.

Answer 8

Barack Obama was hired in 1985 by a Catholic-run charitable organization in Chicago, where he went to work as a community organizer and advocate for the poor. He worked in Chicago for five years, before returning to school to get a law degree at Harvard.

Answer 9

He became a civil rights attorney for a small Chicago law firm. He also taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School. He then decided to go into politics.