What was President Obama's profession?

Answer 1

Barack Obama was a law professor at the University of Chicago for a few years. He also served as civil rights lawyer and a community organizer. Lastly, he was a U.S. Senator for the State of Illinois.

Answer 2

President Obama has had several career changes over the years. He was a lawyer, he was a professor of law, he was a community organizer and advocate for the poor, and he was a state legislator in Illinois (and later a U.S. senator) before he became president.

Answer 3

Barack Obama has been a community organizer and advocate for the poor; civil rights attorney; professor of constitutional law at the University of Chicago; state senator from Illinois; US Senator from Illinois; author of two best-selling books.

Answer 4

After graduating from Columbia University in 1983, Mr. Obama worked as an advocate for the poor and a community organizer for a Catholic charitable organization in Chicago. He then went back to school to get his law degree, which he obtained from Harvard Law School, with academic honors, in 1991. He returned to Chicago and became a civil rights lawyer, then a professor of law for nearly twelve years. He decided to run for political office, and became a state senator from Illinois. After being re-elected several times, he ran for U.S. Senator in 2004 and won. His next job after that was president.

Answer 5

He has been a full-time politician since he joined the Illinois state senate in early 1997; he was elected to three terms. He also taught constitutional law part-time at University of Chicago. In 2004, he was elected to the U.S. Senate. Prior to his political career, he was a civil rights attorney, and a community organizer and advocate for the poor. These days, his profession is President of the United States.

Answer 6

law (including teaching law) and politics

Answer 7

law and politics