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Illinois
A member of the Illinois State Assembly.
Abraham Lincoln was a State Legislator from the state of Illinois, for one term. He lost when running for reelection. He also was a member of the Illinois state assembly, for a total of 4 terms, or 8 years. The first time he ran for State Assembly, in 1832, he lost but ran again in 1834, and won.
He ran for the Illinois state Senate in 1996 and was elected that year for the first time.
He Changed because he started out poor then became famous.
A state legislator is a person that is elected by residents of the state to make state laws. They do basically the same job as Congress, but on the state level.
Barack Obama first became a legislator in Illinois-- he ran for the Illinois State Senate in 1996, was elected, and served three terms. He then became a member of congress in 2004 when he was elected to the U.S. Senate from Illinois.
No, this is prohibited by the Constitution.
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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.
Atticus is reelected as a state legislator.
Elected.