History+of+Barack




 * Obma was a member, Illinois State senate 1997-2004; elected as a Democrat to the U.S. Senate in 2004 for term beginning January 3, 2005.
 * Obama, a senator from Illinois was born Honolulu, Hawaii, August 4, 1961.
 * Obama obtained early education in Jakarta, Indonesia, and Hawaii and continued education at Occidental College, Los Angeles, Calif. Received a B.A. in 1983 from Columbia University, New York City;
 * Sttudied law at Harvard University, where he became the first African American president of the Harvard Law Review, and received J.D. in 1991
 * Obama was a member of the Illinois State senate 1997-2004; elected as a Democrat to the U.S. Senate in 2004 for term beginning January 3, 2005.
 * Obama has written some books but his most popular is The Audacity of Hope.