among other things: US Senator from Illinois, Illinois State Senator
Obama was elected to the Illinois Senate in 1996, succeeding State Senator Alice Palmer as Senator from Illinois's 13th District. Obama was sworn in as a US senator (for the state of Illinois) on January 3, 2005.
Mississippi was the 20th state. Illinois was the 21st. Alabama was the 22nd.
Indiana became the 19th State in 1816 and Illinois became the 21st State in 1818.
Before he was president, Barack Obama served as a US Senator from the state of Illinois. Before that, he was an Illinois state senator for three terms. He was also a professor of law at the University of Chicago, and he worked as a lawyer for a small Chicago law firm specializing in civil rights cases.
He was never the governor of Illinois. He was in the Illinois state senate for three terms, and then he became a U.S. senator.
He was the junior senator from Illinois.
His previous job was as a U.S. Senator from Illinois. Before that, he was an Illinois State Senator.
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There are three: the Mississippi, the Ohio, and the Wabash.
He served three terms representing the 13th District in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004
There are three types of courts in the state of Illinois. The Supreme Court of the state has seven justices. The Appellate Court has 54 judges and the District Courts have 23 judicial circuits.