Monday, November 10, 2008

Barack Obama : A Life in Pictures
His mother, Ann Dunham, hailed from Wichita , Kansas

His parents separated when he was two years old and later divorced

His father, Barack Oba ma , Sr, came from Nyango ma -Kogelo , Kenya
His mother re-married, and the family moved to Indonesia in 1967
Barack Obama attended schools in Jakarta until he was ten years old

Barack returned to Hawaii with his grandparents

A photograph taken in 1987 of Barack Obama and his grandmother Sarah Hussein Obama hangs in her home in the village of Nyago ma-Kogelo , western Kenya
He studied at Columbia University in New York , where he ma jored in political science

He then studied law at Harvard, and graduated in 1991
After Harvard Law School , Obama returned to Chicago, joined a small civil rights firm, ran a voter registration drive, and lectured on constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School

He married Michelle Robinson in October 1992

Their daughters, Malia Ann and Natasha, were born in 1998 and 2001
He delivered the keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston
He entered the US Senate on January 4 2005
He announced his intention to run for the 2008 in February 2007. After a lengthy battle with Hillary Clinton, he seized the Democratic nomination in June 2008
He formally accepted his party's nomination at the Democratic National Convention in Denver , Colorado , on August 23

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