Kenyan's son wins senate seat

Barack Obama, the son of a Kenyan father and an American mother who shot from obscurity to political stardom in mere months, trounced his Republican rival to claim a Senate seat in Illinois.

Kenyan's son wins senate seat
Wed, 03 Nov, 2004 - 01:30

Barack Obama, the son of a Kenyan father and an American mother who shot from obscurity to political stardom in mere months, trounced his Republican rival to claim a Senate seat in Illinois.

He will be just the third black US senator since the post-Civil War Reconstruction era.

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