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Barack Hussein Obama

He then transferred to Columbia University in New York, graduating in 1983 with a degree in political science. Obama entered Harvard Law School in 1988. In February 1990, he was elected the first African­American editor of the Harvard Law Review. After working at Business International Corporation (a company that provided international business information to corporate clients), Obama moved to Chicago in 1985. There he worked as a community organizer with low-income residents in Chicago's Roseland community. Obama published an autobiography in 1995 Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance. And he won a Grammy for the audio version of the book. Obama's advocacy work let him to run for the Illinois State Senate as a Democrat. He was elected in 1996 from the south side neighborhood of Hyde Park. Barack Obama's wife and children In June 1989, Obama met Michelle Robinson, who later became his wife. On that time he was