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Barack Obama
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! colspan=2 style="background-color: lavender; text-align: center" | [[United States Senate|United States Senator]]<br />from [[Illinois]]
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|colspan=2 style="border-bottom:none; text-align:center"|<span class="nowrap">'''In office'''</span><br />January 3, 2005&nbsp;–&#32;November 16, 2008
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! style="text-align:left;" | <span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span>
| [[Peter Fitzgerald (politician)|Peter Fitzgerald]]
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! style="text-align:left;" | <span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span>
| [[Roland Burris]]
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! colspan=2 style="background-color: lavender; text-align: center" | [[Illinois Senate#Members of the Illinois Senate|Member of the]] [[Illinois Senate]] <br /> from the 13th District
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|colspan=2 style="border-bottom:none; text-align:center"|<span class="nowrap">'''In office'''</span><br />January 8, 1997&nbsp;–&#32;November 4, 2004
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! style="text-align:left;" | <span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span>
| [[Alice Palmer (politician)|Alice Palmer]]
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| [[Kwame Raoul]]
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