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Upon his election, he became the fifth African-American Senator in U.S. history, the third to have been popularly elected. As a Senator, Obama served on a variety of committees and chaired the United States Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on European Affairs. His bill sponsorship and voting records indicates that he was a loyalist to the ...
Senator (lifespan) Hispanic or Latino ancestry Party State Term start Term end Notes Dominique Bouligny (1773–1833) Spanish Democratic-Republican (1824–1828) Louisiana: Nov 19, 1824: March 4, 1829: Retired National Republican (1828–1829) David Levy Yulee (1810–1886) Spanish [1] Democratic: Florida: July 1, 1845: March 4, 1851: Lost re ...
He married Michelle in 1992 [69] and settled down with her in Hyde Park, a liberal, integrated, middle-class Chicago neighborhood with a history of electing reform-minded politicians independent of the Daley political machine. [70] The couple's first daughter, Malia Ann, was born in 1998; their second, Natasha (known as Sasha), in 2001. [71]
Aida Álvarez became the first Latina woman to serve in the president's cabinet when Clinton picked her for the cabinet-rank position of Administrator of the Small Business Administration in 1997. However, the first Latina to lead a permanent cabinet office was Hilda Solis when President Barack Obama appointed her Secretary of Labor in 2009.
In the past few years, multiple social media posts have declared John Hanson, not Barack Obama, as the first Black president of the United States. The posts, which often feature a black-and-white ...
However, the Senate supermajority only lasted for a period of 72 working days while the Senate was actually in session. A new delegate seat was created for the Northern Mariana Islands . [ 4 ] The 111th Congress had the most long-serving members in history: at the start of the 111th Congress, the average member of the House had served 10.3 ...
This is the electoral history of Barack Obama. Barack Obama served as the 44th president of the United States (2009–2017) and as a United States senator from Illinois (2005–2008). A member of the Democratic Party , Obama was first elected to the Illinois Senate in 1997 representing the 13th district, which covered much of the Chicago South ...
Former President Barack Obama recently suggested “it’s not racist” to say immigrants in the U.S. should learn English. Of course. Does that mean that they can never use their own language?