FULL TRANSCRIPT: Sen. Barack Obama's Victory Speech

Obama, who was born in in Hawaii to a white woman from Kansas and a black man from Kenya, graduated from Harvard Law School and was a law professor at the University of Chicago before launching his political career in , when he was elected to the Illinois State Senate. He was re-elected to that post in and In March , he shot to national prominence by winning the U. That November, Obama was elected to the U. Senate in a landslide.