President-elect Obama to resign from Senate. President-elect Barack Obama said Thursday that he will resign from the Senate effective Sunday. In a statement, the junior Illinois senator called his four-year term “one of the highest honors and privileges” of his life and said the people of Illinois will stay with him as he leaves the Senate to begin “the hard task of fulfilling the simple hopes and common dreams of all Americans as our nation’s next president.” Obama won the presidency last week over Republican John McCain. He takes office on Jan. 20. Under state law, Democratic Gov. Rod Blagojevich will name Obama’s replacement for the remaining two years of his term. Blagojevich has said he expects to make a decision by year’s end. Obama’s election in 2004 made him the only Black senator. Among the possible replacement is Chicago Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.

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