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.
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Barack Obama served as a senator in the Illinois state legislature between 1997-2004. He resigned when he was elected to the US senate.
US Senator from Illinois. Prior to that, Illinois state Senator.
Barack Obama was a Senator from Illinois.
Before being elected as President of the United States, Barack Obama was the junior Senator for the State of Illinois.
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.
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.
President Obama was first elected as a state senator in Illinois in 1996. After serving three terms, he was elected as a U.S. senator in 2004. He then ran for president in 2008 and won, and ran again in 2012 and was re-elected.
Obama was never a governor. He was the junior senator from Illinois.
He was first elected to the Illinois state senate in 1996. He was re-elected twice. He then ran for U.S. senate and was elected in 2004.
Barack Obama was first elected to the Illinois state senate, beginning in 1996.