What were Barack Obama former jobs?

Answer 1

Barack Obama was a law professor at the University of Chicago for a few years.

He served in the Illinois state legislature. He also was a civil rights lawyer and a community organizer. Lastly, he was a U.S. Senator for the State of Illinois.

Answer 2

Barack Obama was first a community organizer and an advocate for the poor in Chicago, beginning in the mid-1980s. After going to law school at Harvard, he became a civil rights attorney, and a law professor at the University of Chicago Law School for nearly twelve years. In 1996, he ran for political office for the first time, becoming a state senator from Illinois; he was re-elected several times, and then became a U.S. Senator from the same state in 2004. He is also the author of two best-selling books.

Answer 3

Before he was president, Barack Obama was a community organizer and advocate for the poor; a civil rights lawyer; a professor of constitutional law; a state senator from Illinois and then a U.S. Senator.

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 at the University of Chicago Law School for nearly twelve years. He decided to run for political office in 1996, and became a state senator from Illinois. After being re-elected several times, he was elected US Senator from Illinois in 2004. He held held that office when he first ran for President.

Answer 5

Barack Obama was a member of the US Senate before being elected President. Prior to that he was a lawyer and law school professor, and he became deeply involved in community development, public housing, and other advocacy work in the Chicago area.

His first job after having graduating from was at "Business International Corporation." He then worked for the "New York Public Interest Research Group," became the director of the "Developing Communities Project." He then went to law school at Harvard becoming the first African American president of the Harvard Law Review in 1990. With his law degree, Mr. Obama did community organizing, practiced civil rights law, and taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School for over ten years. He then ran for office and was elected as an Illinois senator in 1996 and after being re-elected several times, he was elected as U.S. senator from Illinois.

Answer 6

Before being elected as the President of the United States Barack Obama's most recent job was a U.S Senator for the State of Illinois. Prior to that, Barack Obama enrolled into Law School at Harvard.