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Before becoming president, Barack Obama was elected to the Illinois state senate in 1996, and he was then elected to serve as a U.S. Senator from Illinois: he won that election in 2004.
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Obama was a US Senator from Illinois when he was elected President.
Illinois was the state where he was elected Senator before he was elected President.Illinois.Barack Obama is one of two US Senators for the US State of Illinois.IllinoisPresident Obama was U.S. Senator of Illinois, Chicago. He began there as a State legislator. He was however not born and raised there.
Before being elected as President of the United States, Barack Obama was the junior Senator for the State of Illinois.
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Many claimed that America was post racial after Barack Obama was elected president.
Obama was a US Senator from Illinois , elected in 2004, when he ran for President. Before that, he held a seat as an Illinois state senator from 1997 to 2004.
After choosing running mate Joe Biden and defeating John McCain Barack Obama became president. He was elected on November 4, 2008 with 52.9 percent of the vote. He was sworn in on on January 20, 2009 to the presidency.
Barack Obama was first elected to the Illinois state senate, beginning in 1996.
Barack Obama decided to run for president after becoming a US senator. He was elected as a US senator from Illinois in 2004 and announced his candidacy for president in February 2007.
Barack Obama was elected President in the United States of America.