Barack Obama through the years
A photograph of Barack Obama Sr., the father of Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama, on the wall of Obama’s grandmother’s house in the village of Kogelo, Kenya, near the shores of Lake Victoria. (Ben Curtis / Associated Press)
As the Democratic nominee for Senate, Barack Obama reads through his keynote address that he is to deliver to the Democratic National Convention in 2004. (M. Spencer Green / Associated Press)
Barack Obama holds daughter Malia, 6, and wife Michelle holds daughter Sasha, 3, after Obama was elected to the Senate in 2004. (M. Spencer Green / Associated Press)
In what some people called “the Speech,” Barack Obama addresses delegates during the Democratic National Convention in Boston. Four months after the convention, Obama won a U.S. Senate seat in a landslide. (Kevork Djansezian / Associated Press)
Barack Obama (D-Ill.) in his Capitol Hill Senate office in Washington in 2005 near a painting of the first African American Supreme Court justice, Thurgood Marshall. (Charles Dharapak / Associated Press)
Barack Obama claps hands with his grandmother, Sarah Hussein Obama, at his father’s house in Nyongoma Kogelo village in western Kenya in 2006. (Sayyid Azim / Associated Press)
Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) waves to spectators as he arrives to announce his candidacy for president in Springfield, Ill. (Charles Rex Arbogast / Associated Press)
