He served from 2005 to 2008.
Barack Obama was first elected to the Illinois state senate, beginning in 1996.
The Democrats did not have majorities in the House and Senate for very long-- about twenty-two months total. Mr. Obama took office in January 2009 when both the house and senate were majority Democrats. But by November 2010, when the mid-term elections took place, the House changed control to the Republicans. And the Democrats still maintained a slim majority in the Senate.
State Senate & Senate.
Illinois Senate career of Barack Obama was born on 1961-08-04.
1997 to 2001
No. The United States Senate voted on the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996. During that time, Barack Obama was a senator in the Illinois State Senate. Mr. Obama won election to the U.S. Senate in 2004.
Obama was never in the CIA. After Harvard Law School, he was a civil rights lawyer in Chicago and congressional law professor at Chicago University. He then served in the Illinois State Senate until 2004. From there, he went to the US Senate, and now the Presidency.
No He is not the first African American in the senate
HE WAS 47 YEARS OF AGE
Alan Keys
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He represented Illinois