Barack Obama Timeline

Barack Obama is the junior United States Senator from Illinois, better known for being nominated for the position of president in the United States Presidential election of 2008. He is the first African-American to be nominated for president by a major political party in America. Let us look at his timeline.

Barack Obama Timeline

1961: Barack Obama was born on August 4, 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii. His birth name is Barack Hussein Obama II.
1971: Obama started living with his maternal grandparents in Honolulu and attended the Punahou School till high school graduation. From there, he moved to Los Angeles and attended the Occidental College for two years.
1983: Obama graduated with B.A from Colombia. He served at the Business International Corporation for a year and then worked at the New York Public Interest Research Group. He spent four years in New York City after which he moved to Chicago and served as director of Developing Communities Project. He worked there till 1988.
1988: In late 1988, Obama joined the Harvard Law School. There, he got the opportunity to preside Law Review, wherein he served as editor-in-chief supervising eighty editors.
1991: Barack Obama obtained Juris Doctor (J.D.) magma cum laude from Harvard.
1992: On October 3, 1992, Obama married Michelle Robinson, an American lawyer who had worked as his advisor at the Chicago law firm for three months. From April to October of 1992, Obama directed the Illinois’ Project Vote and brought about the registration of 150,000 out of 40,000 unregistered African-Americans in the state. It was in this very year that Obama began teaching constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School. He served as a lecturer from 1992 to 1996 and as a senior lecturer till 2004.
1995:By mid-1995, Obama came up with the manuscript of his book with the name ‘Dreams from My Father’.
1996:: Obama was elected to the Illinois Senate in 1996. He was reelected once in 1998 and for the second time in 2002.
2003: Obama became the chairman of the Illinois Senate’s Health, an Human Services Committee.
2004: In July 2004, Obama delivered the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in Boston. It was during this public address that he talked about changing the economic and social priorities of the government. In March 2004, he won a majority of 70 percent votes and was elected to the Senate.
2005:In January 2005, Obama became the fifth African-American Senator in the US history. He was the third one to be popularly elected for the post. He was always one of the most powerful senators ranked by Congress. When in power, he worked towards bringing about several reforms to the system.
2007: On February 10, Obama announced that he would be a candidate for President of the United States.
2008: As of November 5, 2008, Obama is the President-elect of the United States of America. He is the winner of the presidential election making him the forty-fourth President of the United States.

Barack Obama has always emphasized on issues like ending the Iraq war, increasing energy independence and working towards the provision of universal health care. He comes across as a man concerned about the social and political reform of the people.