Barack Obama's Life in Pictures

Submitted by Jerry on Mon, 12/01/2008 - 00:00.

Barack Obama and his father.

Family portraits, including one of Barack Obama's father, hang in his
family house.

Barack Obama in a group photograph in Jakarta. When he was six years
old Obama moved to Indonesia after his divorced mother remarried an
Indonesian foreign student, Lolo Soetoro.

Barack Obama with his maternal grandparents, Stanley and Madelyn Dunham.

Barack Obama in a 1978 senior yearbook photo at the Punahou school in
Honolulu, Hawaii.

1979, Hawaii: Barack Obama playing basketball at Punahou school.

July 22 2004: Barack Obama teaching at the University of Chicago law
school. Obama arrived in Chicago in 1985 with a college degree, a map
of the city and a new job as a community organiser, only to move on a
few years later to Harvard law school. When he returned to Chicago, he
joined a small civil rights firm, ran a voter registration drive, and
lectured on constitutional law at the University of Chicago law school.

July 27 2004, Boston, US: Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, wave to
delegates after he delivered his keynote address to the Democratic
National Convention.

December 8 2004, Chicago, US: Barack and Michelle
Obama at home.

November 2 2004, Chicago, US: Barack Obama, holding
his daughter Malia, and his wife, Michelle, holding their daughter
Sasha, are covered in confetti after Obama delivered his acceptance
speech. Obama, only the fifth black US senator to be elected in
history, defeated the Republican Alan Keyes in the nation's first
senate race with two black major-party candidates.