Barack Obama was born in 1962. He spent part of his childhood in Indonesia and visited his father's relatives in Africa. He later attended Columbia University and Harvard Law School. Obama worked as a community organizer in Chicago and taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago. He was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2004 and gave the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention. Obama was then elected the 44th President of the United States in 2008, becoming the first African American president.

1. Baby Barack c. 1962

2. 1965

3. •1966

4. 1967 with
Grandpa

5. Visits fathers relatives in Africa

6. Columbia University, New York

7. Cass Shop Suey & Soul Food,
Chicago IL

8. Harvard University, Cambridge MA

9. In the “stacks” at Harvard

10. University of Chicago Law School

11. Chicago, c. 2002

12. Democratic Convention, 2004

13. The pundits like to slice and dice our
country into red states and blue States:
red states for Republicans, blue States for
Democrats. But I've got news for them,
too. We worship an awesome God in the
blue states, and we don't like federal
agents poking around our libraries in the
red states. We coach little league in the
blue states and, yes, we've got some gay
friends in the red states.

14. 2008 Historic Election

15. Female or African-American?

21. Senator Joseph Biden

22. Democratic Convention - Denver

23. Post rally, Berlin 2008

24. Barack w/ Rev. Wright

28. New Yorker Magazine 2008

29. Parody – Vanity Fair 2008

31. Sara as beauty queen w/ rifle on
bearskin

32. Gov. Palin as Rosie

33. Michelle Obama on “The View”

34. Chicago, 1968

38. Another disappointment?

39. Party faithful and assorted kooks

40. Onlookers celebrate early election
results

43. By the hundreds

44. By the thousands

45. By the tens of thousands

46. Post rally exodus

47. Barack Hussein Obama, 44th U.S
President