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He is the first African-American president, not the first African. While the president is half-black (his father was from Kenya), he was born in the United States, in Hawaii. How he was elected has been widely reported, but it involved leaving the world of law (he worked as a lawyer and an advocate for the poor), and of academia (he was a college professor); he ran for office as a state legislator in Illinois, then as a U.S. senator, and then he won the presidential election in 2008.

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