Rough Political Timeline
1983 - Graduates from Columbia University in New York with a degree in political science.
1984 - Started work at Business International Corporation, where he was, quote, “a spy behind enemy lines.” He also worked at New York Public Interest Research Group for a $10,000 salary, Here he was a researcher and writer for a reference service called Financing Foreign Operations. He also wrote for a newsletter, Business International Money Report.
1985 - Moves to Chicago To work as a community organizer.
1986 - Gerald Kellman (AKA Jerry Kellman, AKA Marty Kaufman) gave a job to Barack to work as director of the Developing Communities Project, a branch of Calumet Community Religious Conference, the DCP grew from Barack as sole employee with a salary of $13,000, to a staff of 13, and an annual budget of $400,000.
1987 - Travels to Kenya to meet his estranged fathers side of the family.
1988 - Enrols at Harvard Law School. During Summer of 1988, after his first year at Harvard, Barack is hired by Chicago Law firm Sidley Austin as a summer associate. A rare occurrence, as the elite law firm was hesitant of hiring first-year law students. Here Barack met many important figures, such as Michelle Robinson, his future wife to-be, who would be assigned as his mentor, and Newton N. Minow, senior counsel of Sidley Austin, quoted as saying "Barack was possibly the most gifted student that she had ever taught” in reference to Michelle’s mentoring.
1989 - Becomes member of the Harvard Law Review. Elected as HLR’s first African American president.
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1991 - Graduates from Harvard.
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2005 - Elected as Illinois U.S State senator
2008 - Elected as 44th President of U.S
PEOPLE OF INTEREST:
>Al-Waleed bin Talal
>Khalid al-Mansour
>Mike Kruglik
>Bernardine Dohrn
>Bill Ayers
>Walter H. Annenberg
>Deborah Leff
>Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr.
>Alice J. Palmer
>Gerald Kellman
POINTS OF INTEREST:
>Business International Corporation
>New York Public Interest Research Group
>Financing Foreign Operations
>Business International Money Report
>Developing Communities Project
>Calumet Community Religious Conference
>Trinity United Church of Christ, Chicago
>Building One America
>Chicago Annenberg Challenge
>Joyce Foundation
>Carnegie Corporation
Sources:
archive. fo/uyFyY - 1986 - Developing Communities Project sole employee, salary, Harlem-based public interest research group
archive. fo/rMdFZ - 1983-1985 - Spy behind enemy lines, Business International Corporation in New York, researcher and writer for a reference service called Financing Foreign Operations. He also wrote for a newsletter, Business International Money Report.
archive. fo/8CjLB - 1986 - Kellman