Obama’s nomination historical on every front

BARACK OBAMA’s political career boasts a long list of firsts.

Obama’s nomination historical on every front

He is the first presumptive presidential nominee to be a native of Hawaii and the president of the Harvard Law Review. He’s also the first candidate with more than one million contributors.

Obama, an Illinois senator, is the first presumptive presidential nominee in modern times to have a father who wasn’t a US citizen, the first to earn an undergraduate degree from Columbia University in New York and the first to have attended Occidental College in LA.

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