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Age 18 – Moved to LA to attend Occidental College in 1979
Age 20 – Transferred to Columbia University in NY in 1981
Age 21 –
Father died in car accident in 1982
Age 22 – Graduated from Columbia University with BA in political
science and worked for a year
Age 24 – Moved to Chicago in 1985 and worked as director of a
church-based community organization
Age 27 – Travelled to Kenya and meet his paternal relatives in 1988
Age 27 – Entered Harvard Law School in late 1988
Age 28 – Gained national media attention as he became the first
black president of the Harvard Law Review (student journal) in 1989
Age 30 – Graduated from
Harvard Law School and returned to Chicago
Age 31 –
Married Michelle in 1992
Age 31 – Directed a voter registration project to register 150 thousands unregistered African Americans in Illinois in 1992
Age 31 – Served as a
professor at the University of Chicago Law
School for 12 years from 1992 to 2004
Age 32 – Named as one of the "40 under Forty" distinguished people
by Crain's Chicago Business in 1993
Age 34 –
Mother died in cancer in 1995
Age 34 – Published his first book “Dreams from My Father
- The
Audacity of Hope” in 1995
Age 36 – Served as
Illinois State legislator from 1997 to 2004
Age 37 – 1st daughter
Malia was born in 1998
Age 40 – 2nd daughter
Sasha was born in 2001
Age 43 – Served as
US Senator from 2005 to 2008
Age 47 -
Grandmother died the day before
election
Age 47 – Became the
44th President of the United States in Jan. 2009
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