Photos: President Barack Obama through the years
Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States, was born Aug. 4, 1961. As he turns 60, here's a photo gallery of Obama over the years.
In this Jan. 18, 2017, file photo, President Barack Obama smiles during his final presidential news conference in the briefing room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
In this Nov. 2, 2020, photo, former President Barack Obama speaks at a rally as he campaigns for Joe Biden in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)
President Barack Obama wipes his tears as he speaks at McCormick Place in Chicago, Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2017, giving his presidential farewell address. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
President Barack Obama walks with Vice President Joe Biden back to the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Thursday, June 25, 2015, after speaking in the Rose Garden. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
In this image released by the White House and digitally altered by the source to diffuse the paper in front of Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, along with with members of the national security team, receive an update on the mission against Osama bin Laden in the Situation Room of the White House, Sunday, May 1, 2011, in Washington. (Pete Souza/The White House via AP)
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., hugs his wife, Michelle Obama, after giving his acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention at Invesco Field at Mile High in Denver Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
In this Jan. 3, 2008, file photo, then-President-elect Barack Obama greets supporters at a caucus rally in Des Moines, Iowa, after winning the Iowa Democratic presidential caucus. Surrounding him are wife Michelle, right, and daughters Malia and Sasha, bottom center. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)
In this Oct. 29, 2008, file photo vice presidential candidate Joe Biden, D-Del., left, and Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., right, wave during a rally at the Bank Atlantic Center in Sunrise, Fla. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)
In this May 24, 2011, file photo Queen Elizabeth II and U.S. President Barack Obama attend a state banquet in Buckingham Palace in London. (AP Photo/Lewis Whyld, Pool)
In this July 10, 2015, file photo, President Barack Obama, center, talks about the designation of three new national monuments in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. Behind him from left are Victor Knox, associate director of park planning, facilities and lands of the National Park Service; April Slayton, chief of public affairs and chief spokesperson of the National Park Service; Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell; U.S. Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell; and Randy Moore, Forest Service. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
In this Nov. 2, 2018, file photo, former President Barack Obama and Democratic candidate for Georgia Gov. Stacey Abrams wave to the crowd during a campaign rally at Morehouse College in Atlanta. Abrams lost to Republican Brian Kemp in a close runoff. (AP Photo/John Bazemore, File)
In this April 14, 2009, file photo Malia Obama runs with Bo, followed by President Barack Obama and Sasha Obama, on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)
In this Feb. 13, 2009, file photo, President Barack Obama and family depart from the South Lawn of the White House in Washington for Andrews Air Force Base before heading to Chicago. From left are the president, his daughter Malia, daughter Sasha, first lady Michelle Obama, and his mother-in-law Marian Robinson. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
In this April 1, 2013, file photo, President Barack Obama, accompanied by first dog Bo, reads "Chicka Chicka Boom Boom" during the annual Easter Egg Roll on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
Former President Barack Obama joins fans during an NCAA college basketball game between Duke and North Carolina in Durham, N.C., Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2019. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)
In this April 3, 2015, file photo, President Barack Obama arrives at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., from a trip to Salt Lake City, Utah. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
In this Monday, May 31, 2010, file photo, President Barack Obama takes the stage during a rain storm to encourage the crowd to go to their cars for safety during Memorial Day ceremonies at the Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery in Elwood, Ill. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
In this June 9, 2010, file photo, U.S. President Barack Obama makes a statement about Iran in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
In this Oct. 28, 2014, file photo, President Barack Obama gives a thumbs up to supporters as he campaigns for Wisconsin Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mary Burke in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast,File)
President Barack Obama kisses nine-month-old Nathan Maxwell Johnson of Youngstown, Ohio, at Dobbins Elementary School in Poland, Ohio, Friday, July 6, 2012, following his Betting on America presidential re-election campaign tour. (AP Photo / Scott R. Galvin)
President Barack Obama calls Wisconsin volunteers as he visits a campaign office call center the morning of the 2012 election, Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
President Barack Obama pauses as he speaks at the election night party at McCormick Place, Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2012, in Chicago. Obama defeated Republican challenger former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
President Barack Obama, left, casts his vote during early voting in the 2012 election Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012, in Chicago, at the Martin Luther King Community Center. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
In this May 3, 2017, file photo, former President Barack Obama speaks at a community event at the South Shore Cultural Center in Chicago. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)
In this March 25, 2012, file photo, then-U.S. President Barack Obama, second left, looks through binoculars to see North Korea from Observation Post Ouellette in the Demilitarized Zone, the tense military border between the two Koreas, in Panmunjom, South Korea. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
In this Oct. 31, 2016, file photo, President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama dance with kids to the beat of "Thriller" during a Halloween celebration at the South Portico of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)
This Jan. 20, 2009, file photo shows President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama as they walk the inaugural parade route in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
In this July 4, 2014, file photo, President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama greet military families as they host an Independence Day celebration on the South Lawn at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
In this March 23, 2010, file photo, President Barack Obama signs the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in the East Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
In this Saturday, April 6, 2019, file photo, former U.S. President Barack Obama shakes hand with visitors as he leaves after a town hall meeting at the 'European School For Management And Technology' (ESMT) in Berlin, Germany. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)
In this July 14, 2009, file photo, President Barack Obama throws out the ceremonial first pitch during the MLB All-Star baseball game in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, file)
President-elect Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, left, and Vice President-elect Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, wave to the crowd after Obama's acceptance speech at his election night party at Grant Park in Chicago, Nov. 4, 2008. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)
President-elect Barack Obama, left, his wife Michelle Obama, right, and two daughters, Malia, and Sasha, center left, wave to the crowd at the election night rally in Chicago, Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2008. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
In this Aug. 20, 2013, file photo former Miami Dolphins football quarterback Bob Griese, left, President Barack Obama and 1972 Dolphins Coach Don Shula, right, hold a signed jersey in the East Room of the White House in Washington during a ceremony honoring the Super Bowl VII football champion Miami Dolphins. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, file)
In this Sept. 14, 2015, file photo, President Barack Obama speaks at a town hall with high school juniors, seniors and their parents at North High School in Des Moines. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)
In this Oct. 6, 2007, file photo, then presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., left, shares a laugh with Greenwood County, S.C., Council Woman, Edith Childs, right, whom he credited with giving him the idea for his popular "Fire It Up" campaign chant in a packed gymnasium at South Aiken High School, in Aiken, S.C. (AP Photo/Brett Flashnick, File)
In this Dec. 5, 2017, file photo, former President Barack Obama addresses the participants at a summit on climate change in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
In this Feb. 19, 2015, file photo, President Barack Obama signs a proclamation in Chicago to designate the Pullman National Monument, commemorating African-Americans who served as porters, waiters and maids on the iconic Pullman sleeper cars. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
In a Monday, Sept. 15, 2014, file photo, President Barack Obama, right, shakes hands with retired Army Command Sgt. Major Bennie G. Adkins after presenting him with the Medal of Honor, in the East Room of the White House, in Washington. Adkins, who received the Congressional Medal of Honor for his heroism during the Vietnam War, died from complications from coronavirus. The Bennie Adkins Foundation announced the death on social media Friday, April 17, 2020. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
This Dec. 13, 2019, photo shows former President Barack Obama speaking at the Gathering of Rising Leaders in the Asia Pacific, organized by the Obama Foundation in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)
In this Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2009, file photo, President-elect Barack Obama is welcomed by President George W. Bush for a meeting at the White House in Washington, with former presidents, from left, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
In this Oct. 31, 2017, file photo, former President Barack Obama, right, and former first lady Michelle Obama appear at the Obama Foundation Summit in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
In this March 7, 2015, file photo, singing "We Shall Overcome," President Barack Obama, third from left, walks holding hands with Amelia Boynton, who was beaten during "Bloody Sunday," as they and the first family and others including Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga, left of Obama, walk across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., for the 50th anniversary of "Bloody Sunday," a landmark event of the civil rights movement. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
In this Sunday, July 17, 2011, file photo, President Barack Obama, second from right, walks with his family, first lady Michelle Obama, left, and their daughters Malia, third from left, and Sasha, from St. John's Episcopal Church to the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., puts on a cowboy hat handed to him as the candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination leaves a rally in Austin, Texas, Friday, Feb. 23, 2007. (AP Photo/LM Otero)
Malaysia's Prime Minister Najib Razak arranges his tie as he waits with U.S. President Barack Obama, top left, South Korea's Prime Minister Hwang Kyo-ahn, front left, and Vietnam's President Tran Dai Quang for the group photo at the annual Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation, APEC, summit in Lima, Peru, Sunday, Nov. 20, 2016. The APEC forum closed with a joint pledge to work toward a sweeping new free trade agreement that would include all 21 members as a path "sustainable, balanced and inclusive growth," despite the political climate. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)
Former President Barack Obama acknowledges the crowd after addressing services for the late Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Thursday, July 30, 2020. (Alyssa Pointer/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP, Pool)
In this Oct. 29, 2004, file photo, Illinois Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Barack Obama, right, and Chicago Mayor Richard Daley eat sandwiches during lunch at Manny's Cafeteria and Delicatessen in Chicago. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)
In this Oct. 26, 2018, file photo, former President Barack Obama speaks at a rally in support of Wisconsin Democratic candidates in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)
In this April 23, 2014, file photo, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, right, and President Barack Obama shake hands before having dinner at Sukiyabashi Jiro sushi restaurant in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
In this Oct. 16, 2012, file photo, Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, left, and President Barack Obama spar during a presidential debate at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
President Barack Obama awards the 2015 National Medal of Arts to director and playwright Moises Kaufman, left, during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington on Sept. 22, 2016. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
Former President Barack Obama speaks at a rally for Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden, at Northwestern High School in Flint, Mich., Saturday, Oct. 31, 2020. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
Former President Barack Obama speaks at a rally at Belle Isle Casino in Detroit, Mich., Saturday, Oct. 31, 2020, also attended by Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
Former President Barack Obama speaks at a rally as he campaigns for Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden, Monday, Nov. 2, 2020, in Miami. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)
In this Oct. 31, 2020, file photo Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden, right, and former President Barack Obama greet each other with an air elbow bump, at the conclusion of rally at Northwestern High School in Flint, Mich. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)
In this Jan. 16, 2010, file photo President Barack Obama, center, walks out of the Oval Office of the White House with former Presidents Bill Clinton, left, and George W. Bush, right, to deliver remarks in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
In this Aug. 26, 2006, file photo, then-U.S. Sen. Barack Obama meets his step-grandmother Sarah Obama at his father's house in Kogelo village, western Kenya. She died on March 29, 2021. (AP Photo/Sayyid Azim)
In this Oct. 31, 2008, file photo, then-Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., arrives at a rally in Des Moines, Iowa, on Oct. 31, 2008.(AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
In this Dec. 5, 2013, file photo President Barack Obama talks with MSNBC's Chris Matthews during a break in the taping of an interview for the "Hardball with Chris Matthews" show at American University in Washington. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci, File)
More than 400 guests, including celebrities and former Obama administration officials, were reportedly expected to attend the affair, along with nearly 200 hired staff working the party.
Barack and Michelle Obama dug shovels into the ground Tuesday during a celebratory groundbreaking on their legacy project in a lakefront Chicago park.
The boy was 5 years old when he visited the Oval Office and asked President Obama, "Is your hair like mine?"