Unit 3 Fairness for allBarack Hussein Obama Ⅱ (born August 4,1961) is the President elect of the United States
He was the junior United States Senator from Illinois from 2005 until his resignation on November 16,2008
Obama is the first African American to be elected President of the United States
He is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School , where he was president of the Harvard Law Review
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
Following an unsuccessful bid for a seat in the US
House of Representatives in 2000 , he announced his campaign for the US
Senate in January 2003 , won a