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Future President Barack Obama?
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Barack Hussein Obama is the junior United States Senator from Illinois. He is the fifth African American Senator in U.S. history and the only African American currently serving in the U.S. Senate.
Here are some facts about the presidential hopeful.
| | Born in Hawaii on August 4th, 1961. |
| | His father, Barack Obama Sr., was born and raised in a small village in Kenya. |
| | Barack's mother, Ann Dunham, grew up in small-town Kansas. |
| | Graduated from Columbia University in 1983. |
| | Moved to Chicago in 1985 and became a community organizer with a church-based group seeking to improve living conditions in poor neighborhoods plagued with crime and high unemployment. |
| | Went to earn his law degree from Harvard in 1991, where he became the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review. |
| | Returned to Chicago to practice as a civil rights lawyer and teach constitutional law. |
| | His advocacy work led him to run for the Illinois State Senate, where he served for eight years. |
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