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.
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No, Obama was a Senator before being elected president
He was a Senator for Illinois.
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.
Barack Obama was a Senator from Illinois before he won the Presidency in 2008.
Obama was a US senator from Illinois when he was elected. His home was in Chicago, Illinois.
Barack Obama was elected President in the United States of America.
Obama was elected US Senator by the state of Illinois.
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.
He still keeps a house in Chicago which was his residence before he was elected president.
This question was asked before the 2008 election. On November 4, 2008, Barack Obama did in fact get elected America's 44th president. He was re-elected on November 6, 2012.