In 1988, he enrolled in Harvard Law School, where he was the first black person to head the Harvard Law Review. After graduating, he became a civil rights attorney and an academic, teaching constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004. Turning to elective politics, he represented the 13th district from 1997 until 2004 in the Illinois Senate, when he ran for the U.S. Senate. Obama was elected over Republican John McCain and was inaugurated alongside Joe Biden on January 20, 2009. Nine months later, he was named the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize laureate. In a 2006 interview, Obama highlighted the diversity of his extended family: 'It's like a little mini-United Nations,' he said. 'I've got relatives who look like Bernie Mac, and I've got relatives who look like Margaret Thatcher.' Kornblut, Anne E. (February 4, 2010). 'Obama's spirituality is largely private, but it's influential, advisers say'.