Barack Hussein Obama II (pronounced /bəˈrɑːk hʊˈseɪn oʊˈbɑːmə/; born August 4, 1961) is the President-elect[1][2][3] of the United States of America and the junior United States Senator from Illinois. His inauguration into office as the forty-fourth President of the United States is scheduled for January 20, 2009. Obama is the first African American to be elected President of the United States,[4][5][6] and was the first to be nominated for President by a major political party.[7] Obama is also the first candidate born in Hawaii to have been nominated and subsequently elected president.[8]
A graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, he became the first African American to serve as president of the Harvard Law Review.[9] Obama worked as a community organizer and practiced as a civil rights attorney before serving three terms in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004. He taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004.......
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