http://www.circavie.com/timelines/f1d339ac-a7a9-59ea-b009-28c6d54096b1 2007-08-26T23:03:12Z http://www.circavie.com/ http://farm1.static.flickr.com/214/452460338_4d638d6723_s.jpg http://www.circavie.com/timelines/f1d339ac-a7a9-59ea-b009-28c6d54096b1 http://www.circavie.com/timelines/f1d339ac-a7a9-59ea-b009-28c6d54096b1/6141 Obama was elected to the Illinois State Senate in 1996 from the state's 13th District in the south-side Chicago neighborhood of Hyde Park. He was reelected to the Illinois Senate in 1998 and 2002, officially resigning in November 2004 following his election to the U.S. Senate. 6cb350ce-09c6-5367-9279-ba5ad8a0bd71 2007-08-27T00:32:11Z http://www.circavie.com/timelines/f1d339ac-a7a9-59ea-b009-28c6d54096b1/6136 The family moved to Jakarta in 1967, where Obama attended local schools from ages 6 to 10. He then returned to Honolulu to live with his maternal grandparents while attending Punahou School from 5th grade until his graduation in 1979. 625423ab-e66c-5515-866e-dc648279fd33 2007-08-26T23:18:37Z http://www.circavie.com/timelines/f1d339ac-a7a9-59ea-b009-28c6d54096b1/6134 Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance is the autobiography of United States Senator Barack Obama. It was published in 1995 after Obama was elected the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review, but before his political career began. The book was re-released in 2004 following Senator Obama's widely admired keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention. The 2004 edition version includes a new introduction by Senator Obama and a copy of his DNC keynote address. You may purchase this book on Amazon.com by using the link below. 1856cba8-e9b6-5640-8b43-71ee9aeac01a 2007-08-26T23:13:14Z http://www.circavie.com/timelines/f1d339ac-a7a9-59ea-b009-28c6d54096b1/6132 Barack Obama was born in Hawaii on August 4th, 1961. His father, Barack Obama Sr., was born and raised in a small village in Kenya, where he grew up herding goats with his own father, who was a domestic servant to the British. Barack's mother, Ann Dunham, grew up in small-town Kansas. Her father worked on oil rigs during the Depression, and then signed up for World War II after Pearl Harbor, where he marched across Europe in Patton's army. Her mother went to work on a bomber assembly line, and after the war, they studied on the G.I. Bill, bought a house through the Federal Housing Program, and moved west to Hawaii. It was there, at the University of Hawaii, where Barack's parents met. His mother was a student there, and his father had won a scholarship that allowed him to leave Kenya and pursue his dreams in America. b8989691-4423-564d-a1f0-d1481aa7dbde 2007-08-26T23:04:51Z