Lyndon B. Johnson in 1961
Barack Obama. Before him it was Richard M Nixon.
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.
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.
Before being elected as President of the United States, Barack Obama was the junior Senator for the State of 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.
Obama was a US Senator from Illinois when he was elected President.
The current President, Barack Obama, is the first black President. He was elected to two terms. He was formerly a Senator in Illinois.
Barack Obama did not serve as a US Representative (a member of the House of Representatives). He was first elected as a state senator in Illinois in 1996, and after three terms, he was elected as a member of the US Senate; he served as a senator until he decided to run for president. That said, as president, Barack Obama certainly does represent the United States. But prior to becoming the president, he was a member of the Senate, not the House of Representatives.
Obama was a US Senator from Illinois , elected in 2004, when he ran for President. Before that, he held a seat as an Illinois state senator from 1997 to 2004.
He was a US Senator from Illinois when he was elected President. Before that he was in the state legislature , taught law and worked as a community organizer.
If you are asking what position he held before being elected president, he was elected a state senator in Illinois in 1996, and in 2004, he was elected to the U.S. Senate.