Barak Huisein Obama the 2nd was born on August 4th 1961, was born in Honolulu. His parents were seperated then divorced, then his father died in a carwreck, so he moved to Hawaii to live with his Mother and her parents. His mother died of Ovarian Cancer in 1995. After graduating high school he went to several colleges. He moved to Chicago so help in a church organization building Comnunities among citizens. After Chicago he went to Harvard and graduated with a Juris Doctorate and moved back to Chicago.
In 1996 Obama was elected into the Illinois Senate, succeeding Alice Palmer as senator from Illinois. Obama was reelected into the same position in 1998 and 2002. In 2000 he ran for a position in the house of representitives, losing to Bobby Rush. In 2002 Obama started considering running for the U.S. Senate, Obama contacted David Axelrod to boost his support for the Candidatcy. Obama won and was sworn in as a senator in January of 2005
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I liked reading about Obama's political backround, I didn't know that he had ran for the same position in the senate twice.
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