Barack Obama was never governor of Illinois. He represented Illinois in the United States Senate.
Barack Obama was first elected to the Illinois state senate, beginning in 1996.
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.
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.
Barack Obama was first elected to the Illinois State Senate in 1996. He was re-elected several times. Then, in 2004, he was elected a U.S. Senator. He served about twelve years total in the state and the U.S. senate, before being elected president in 2008.
He ran for the Illinois state senate in 1996 and won.
He was a United States Senator from Illinois.
He was a state senator from Illinois, and then he was a U.S. senator, also from Illinois.
Obama was never a governor. He was the junior senator from Illinois.
I am not sure I understand the question. If you are asking where he was born, it was in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1961. If you are asking where he started his career in politics, it was in Chicago, in 1996, when he was elected to the Illinois State Senate.
No, you are thinking of Barack Obama, who served in the Illinois state senate, and then became a U.S. senator, before becoming president.