--- title: Steve Bannon: His Life in Pictures description: See pictures of Steve Bannon from high school to the White House. canonical: https://time.com/4657761/steve-bannon-pictures-photos-biography-history/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-02-03T18:11:34.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:59:06.881Z article:section: Politics og:title: See Steve Bannon's Life in Pictures og:description: From high school to the White House og:url: https://time.com/4657761/steve-bannon-pictures-photos-biography-history/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt35c13b9767e1b115/6988b87286f68eda136e35f3/steve-bannon-cover-time.jpg?branch=production&width=1182&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1182 og:image:height: 665 og:image:alt: steve-bannon-cover-time og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: See Steve Bannon's Life in Pictures twitter:description: From high school to the White House twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt35c13b9767e1b115/6988b87286f68eda136e35f3/steve-bannon-cover-time.jpg?branch=production&width=1182&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # See Steve Bannon's Life in Pictures > Sponsored content. 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After growing up in a working-class Irish Catholic Democratic family in Virginia, Bannon served in the U.S. Navy, worked as an investment banker at Goldman Sachs, produced movies and ran the the conservative website Breitbart News before going to work for Trump’s campaign. A recent TIME cover story asked if Bannon is [“the second most powerful man in the world”](http://time.com/4657665/steve-bannon-donald-trump/) for the role he has played since Trump moved into the Oval Office. In his job as a strategist for President Trump, Bannon helped draft [the uncharacteristically dark inaugural address](http://time.com/4641313/trump-inauguration-speech-analysis/), [pushed the controversial travel ban](http://time.com/4652552/president-trump-is-suspending-a-refugee-program-and-banning-visas-from-7-countries/), [criticized the mainstream media](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/26/business/media/stephen-bannon-trump-news-media.html) and [negotiated a standing invitation](http://time.com/4652842/donald-trump-national-security-stephen-bannon/) to the National Security Council. He’s also faced criticism, both from [grassroots liberals online](http://time.com/4652785/steve-bannon-stoppresidentbannon-twitter-donald-trump/) as well as [Democratic leaders](http://time.com/4659093/nancy-pelosi-white-supremacist-steve-bannon-donald-trump/). See a gallery of rare photographs of Steve Bannon’s life.  Steve Bannon in his Senior Year book, Benedictine High School, Richmond, Va., 1972. Seth Poppel/Yearbook Library  Military Court; Bannon (left), Senior Year 1972\. Benedictine High School, Richmond, Va. Seth Poppel/Yearbook Library  Bannon won the Student Government Association presidency during his junior year at Virginia Tech, 1975. Courtesy of Virginia Tech  Documentary filmmaker Bannon in his office in Santa Monica, Calif., June 20, 2005. Marissa Roth—The New York Times/Redux  Award winning filmmaker Bannon introduces his Tea Party movie trilogy at the Virginia Tea Party Convention,Richmond, Va., Oct. 8, 2010. Tina Fultz—Zuma Press  Bannon in the Washington offices of Breitbart News, 2015. Jeremy Liebman  Breitbart News Daily's Steve Bannon interviews Donald Trump, Jr. for SiriusXM Broadcasts' New Hampshire Primary Coverage, live from the iconic Red Arrow Diner in Manchester, N.H., Feb. 8, 2016. Paul Marotta—SiriusXM/Getty Images  Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's campaign CEO Steve Bannon attends a campaign rally in Eau Claire, Wis., Nov. 1, 2016. Chip Somodevilla—Getty Images  Steve Bannon, appointed chief strategist and senior counselor to President-elect Donald Trump, arrives for the Presidential Inauguration at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., Jan 20, 2017. Saul Loeb—AFP/Getty Images  National security advisor Michael Flynn and White House chief strategist Steve Bannon in the Oval Office with President Trump while he speaks on the phone with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on Jan. 28, 2017. Drew Angerer—Getty Images  White House senior advisers Jared Kushner, Steve Bannon and national security adviser Michael Flynn in the Oval Office, during a meeting between President Trump and British Prime Minister Theresa May, Jan. 27, 2017. Pablo Martinez Monsivais—AP  President Trump congratulates Bannon during the swearing-in of senior staff in the East Room of the White House, Jan. 22, 2017. Mandel Ngan—AFP/Getty Images  Steve Bannon, chief strategist for U.S. President Donald Trump, walks towards Marine One after Trump, not pictured, boarded on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, D.C., Jan. 27, 2017. 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