Barack Obama was first elected to the Illinois state senate, beginning in 1996.
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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.
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 represented the state of Illinois in the US Senate. He lived in Chicago, IL, and was elected to the state senate as someone from the district that includes Chicago. But in US federal politics (congress), a senator is from a state, rather than from a city.
He was a state senator for Illinois, and was elected from the city of Chicago. He served three terms in the state senate and then ran for the US senate, getting elected in 2004.
Sen. McCain is the senior senator for the state of Arizona and Sen. Obama is the junior senator for Illinois.
No, you are thinking of Barack Obama, who served in the Illinois state senate, and then became a U.S. senator, before becoming president.
He was an Illinois State Senator who was running to be elected to the United States Senate.
He ran for the Illinois state senate in 1996 and won.
Barack Obama served as a senator in the Illinois state legislature between 1997-2004. He resigned when he was elected to the US senate.