Barack Hussein Obama4 January 2005
Obama is sworn in as a Senator. Obama becomes the fifth African American Senator in US history, and the third to have been popularly elected
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Obama is sworn in as a Senator. Obama becomes the fifth African American Senator in US history, and the third to have been popularly elected
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