Barack Obama
Born: Hawaii, August 4th, 1961.
Youth: Grew up in Hawaii, lived a few years in Indonesia.
College: Undergraduate -- Columbia University, 1983; Graduate -- Harvard Law School, 1991
Non-political work experience (starting 1985):
- Chicago community church-based group organizer. The group had some success improving living conditions in poor neighborhoods plagued with crime and high unemployment
- Civil rights lawyer - Chicago
- Constitutional law instructor – Chicago
Political Work Experience:
Illinois State Senate (eight years)
- Creating state Earned Income Tax Credit program
- Expansion of early childhood education program
- Passed law requiring videotaping of interrogations and confessions in all capital cases
U.S. Senate (2004 to date)
- First law: online public disclosure of public spending
- Championed ethics reform
- Worked to prepare the VA for care veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan
- Traveled to Russia
- Promoting greater use of alternative fuels and higher fuel standards
Personal life: Married with two daughters; Church -- Trinity United Church of Christ, Chicago
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