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Q: Which Columbian delivered the keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention?
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U.S. Senate candidate Barack Obama (Columbia College 1983), an Illinois state senator, electrified the delegates to the convention—and some television commentators—with his prime-time speech on July 27. The speech, and the reaction to it, confirmed Obama's status as a rising star in the Democratic Party. It also bolstered his candidacy for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Republican Peter Fitzgerald.
After graduation from Columbia, Obama headed a community-development program on Chicago's South Side for four years before entering Harvard Law School. In 1990, he was elected the first African American president of the Harvard Law Review. Obama published a memoir, Dreams From My Father, A Story of Race and Inheritance, in 1995.
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The Spectator takes note.
From Columbia College Today.
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