Full Name: Barack Hussein Obama Jr.
Party: Democratic
Political Office: U.S. Senator from Illinois, elected 2004; member, Illinois State Senate 1997-2004
Business/Professional Experience: Attorney, law firm of Miner Barnhill & Galland (Chicago, IL), 1993-2004
Date of Birth: August 4, 1961
Place of Birth: Honolulu, Hawaii
Home: Chicago, Ill.
Education: B.A. Columbia University 1983; J.D. Harvard Law, 1991
Spouse: married Michelle Robinson, 1992
Children: daughter Malia, born 1999; daughter Natasha, born 2001
Religion: United Church of Christ
Home: Chicago, Ill.
Campaign Web Site: barackobama.com
Barack Obama says his experience gives him a guide to making a “post-post-9/11” foreign policy. Whether Americans will relinquish their fear is another question.
By Barack Obama: The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream [2006]; Dreams from my Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance [1995]
About: Hopes and Dreams: The Story of Barack Obama, by Steve Dougherty [2007]
The Caucus: Posts on Barack Obama
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Senator Barack Obama said Friday that the top priority of the next president should be to create a more lasting and equitable prosperity than achieved by either President Bush or even Bill Clinton.
February 2, 2008U.S.SeriesSenator Edward M. Kennedy’s endorsement pits members of the nation’s most prominent Democratic families against each other.
January 28, 2008U.S.NewsIn an interview, Senator Barack Obama said that forging a new relationship with Iran would be part of his effort to stabilize Iraq.
November 2, 2007U.S.SeriesSenator Barack Obama said he would start confronting Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton more forcefully, in response to concerns about his lack of assertiveness.
October 28, 2007U.S.NewsSenator Barack Obama is a wily player of pickup basketball, a game with unspoken rules and lots of elbows.
June 1, 2007U.S.NewsBarack Obama’s campaign has put a strain on the close relationship he forged over 20 years with his pastor.
April 30, 2007U.S.NewsThe senator is not presenting himself, stylistically at least, the way he did when he gripped Democrats in 2004.
April 8, 2007U.S.NewsThe presidential candidate’s racial consciousness and political curiosity appear to have begun far from Illinois.
March 17, 2007U.S.NewsBarack Obama arrived at Harvard as an unknown; by the time he left, he had become a political sensation.
January 28, 2007U.S.NewsIn his quest for the Democratic nomination for the United States Senate, Barack Obama was, by many measures, supposed to lose.
An interactive timeline of Barack Obama’s life and career.
Barack Obama has admitted to using illegal drugs as a teenager, but others remember him as a model of moderation.
Barack Obama’s postracial style is the reason for much of his political success, but it also has its pitfalls.
Some say that Barack Obama has taken some literary license in portraying the time he spent in Manhattan.
Class emerged as a subtext during Barack Obama’s failed attempt to unseat an incumbent congressman on the South Side of Chicago.
In the Illinois State Senate, Barack Obama brought an eye for opportunity and a willingness to compromise.
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Barack Obama has admitted to using illegal drugs as a teenager, but others remember him as a model of moderation.
Barack Obama’s postracial style is the reason for much of his political success, but it also has its pitfalls.
Some say that Barack Obama has taken some literary license in portraying the time he spent in Manhattan.
Class emerged as a subtext during Barack Obama’s failed attempt to unseat an incumbent congressman on the South Side of Chicago.
In the Illinois State Senate, Barack Obama brought an eye for opportunity and a willingness to compromise.
More Articles in the Series »Search Barack Obama's reports by donor name, employer, and ZIP code, and see where his largest contributors are based.
Go to Donor SearchThe same day Oprah Winfrey made her political debut on behalf of Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton invited her daughter Chelsea to campaign with her.
With the race for president in full swing, another race among political parodists has begun to gain momentum.
February 16, 2008John McCain’s inconsistency is actually nothing new. We saw a lot of it during the Bush tax debates.
February 16, 2008