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He served one term in the US Senate before running for president and winning in 2008. Barack Obama before becoming president served in the US senate for less than 2 years and in the Illinois legislature. In both positions he was the most liberal person in the legislative body.
Barack Obama is the 44th President of the United States and the first African-American to ever hold the office. Although Obama was only 48 years old when he assumed the office of president, he has a relatively long history of public service both in the Illinois State Senate and in Congress as an Illinois senator.