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)
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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)
