2 years ago
Illinois, if you mean where he was a senator
Illinois.
U.S. Senator representing Illinois
Yes. Barack Obama was elected Senator of Illinois in the 2004 elections.
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.
US Senator from Illinois. Prior to that, Illinois state Senator.
Barack Obama. Before him it was Richard M Nixon.
Obama was a US Senator from Illinois when he was elected President.
Before being elected as President of the United States, Barack Obama was the junior Senator for the State of Illinois.
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.
Obama was never a governor. He was the junior senator from Illinois.
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.