From 1992 to 2004 Barack served as a professor at the University of Chicago Law shool teaching constitutional law. Barack’s political career started in 1996 when he was elected to the Illonois State Senate for 2 years. In 1998 he was reelected again to the Illonois Senate. In 2000 he ran for a U.S. House of Representatives seat and lost to the to the Repuplican Senator. In 2002 he was reelected to the Illonois State Senate. In 2004 Barack was elected to the U.S. Senate where he remained until 2008 when he