[209], Michelle Obama's father, born August 1, 1935, died March 6, 1991, married Michelle's mother, Marian Shields, on October 27, 1960. [6] Through Duvall and another common ancestor, Hans Gutknecht, a German Swiss from Bischwiller, Alsace whose three sons resettled in Germantown, Pennsylvania, as well as the Kentucky frontier in the mid-18th century, Dunham is President Harry S. Truman's fourth cousin, twice removed. During his speech, Obama joked with Kerns, the class historian, that he appreciated Kerns not talking about how his grandfather always got in trouble in high school. [61] Obama has often described Payne's role in liberating the Ohrdruf forced labor camp. [91][92], Ng studies "how minority and diaspora communities use cinema and digital media to engage in artistic and cultural representation and preservation, and community mobilization". Before the family moved to Washington in 2009, both girls attended the private University of Chicago Laboratory School. [75] In 2014, "Barack Obama Plaza", a service station and visitor center, was opened in Moneygall. "It was just high school stuff. In an interview with The Times, he "said that he was furious at subsequent reports that he had been abandoned by the Obama family and that he was filled with shame about living in a slum". It is said of him that he had ants up his anus, because he could not sit still. Onyango was then subject to torture due to suspicions that he was an associate of the Mau Mau rebels. He married LaVaughn Johnson. They feel that those who have left the village have become culturally "lost". The family is found living with Ruth's parents in the 1920 federal census of Sedgwick County, Kansas. No DNA evidence or unambiguous documentation has been produced to establish that Stanley Ann Dunham is Barry's mother. [81] She has a half-brother and half-sister, Yusuf and Aya Soetoro, from her father's second marriage. [1] His immediate family includes his wife Michelle Obama and daughters Malia and Sasha Obama. MSNBC's Dan Abrams gets the story behind the story. She continued to help care for them while living in the White House as part of the First Family;[206] she was the first live-in grandmother since Elivera M. Doud during the Eisenhower administration. Apr 9, 2023 757.8K Views 2,151 Retweets 93 Quotes 6,809 Likes 725 The attribution of Barack Obama to Stanley Ann Dunham is almost certainly false. 09 Apr 2023 04:37:37 [74][72] Barack Obama visited Moneygall in 2011. But, Kerns said, Stanley Dunham wasn't worse than any other high school kid. Obama, Sr. claimed he was the target of a hit-and-run assassination attempt after his testimony. [49][50] He often referred to his family during his candidacy and two terms as president. George W. Bush. Her dissertation was on the conception of labor in Germany and its literary reflections.[152]. He dealt with safety and privacy concerns arising from the increased attention from the press. In Dreams from My Father, Obama wrote that his Obama relatives doubt that Abo and Bernard are the biological sons of Barack Obama Sr. Born Ruth Beatrice Baker in the United States around 1937, the daughter of Maurice Joseph Baker and Ida Baker of Newton, Massachusetts, who are of Lithuanian-Jewish descent. "The values she taught me continue to be my touchstone when it comes to how I go about the world of politics."[58]. Barack Hussein Obama. He and his wife Madelyn Payne Dunham raised Obama from the age of 10 in Honolulu, Hawaii. Subsequently, Dunham's father placed him and his older brother Ralph Waldo Emerson Dunham, Jr. in the care of their maternal grandparents in El Dorado, Kansas. Since she remarried when her sons were young, they took their stepfather's surname, Ndesandjo, as their own. [205][210] Robinson was a pump worker at the City of Chicago water plant. He wasn't ever any real trouble," Kerns said. [107], Onyango worked as a mission cook and as a local herbalist. Robbie Shields Terry (born Robbie Lee Shields; July 3, 1908 June 1, 1983) was Michelle Obama's great-aunt: her mother's father's sister. [5] Carrie Nelson, Gabriel Robinson's daughter, is the keeper of family lore and the oldest living Robinson at 80 years old in 2008.[5]. In 1955, after the Dunhams moved to Seattle, Washington, Dunham worked as a salesman for the Standard-Grunbaum Furniture Company, and his daughter Ann attended middle school. Son of Ralph Waldo Emerson Dunham and Ruth Lucille Dunham Please enable JavaScript in your browser's settings to use this part of Geni. After her graduation at Heidelberg, she went on for graduate studies at the University of Bayreuth, earning a PhD degree in 1996. "I know that. Maya Soetoro-Ng is a teacher in Hawaii. This was denied in 2004, but she remained in the country illegally. In the 1940 census, she was listed as head of household,[212] with Marian Shields listed as niece. Stanley Dunham managed the Farm and Home Store at 142 N. Main, a large brick building being converted into retail and office space. Google yourself if you don't believe. Stanley Dunham, was raised in El Dorado, and his grandmother, Madelyn Payne, grew up in Augusta. He served in the ministries of transportation and finance. Auma Obama has lived in London. He landed at Normandy's Omaha Easy Red Beach on D-Day plus four, and moved with troops in the fighting through France, Italy and Germany. Wolf grew up in Augusta and remembers going to Madelyn Dunham's house for Fourth of July celebrations. Stanley Ann Dunham (daughter) Barack Obama (grandson) Ralph Waldo Emerson Dunham, Sr. and Ruth Lucille Armour (parents) [1] Other work. Obama's family said that his maternal great-grandmother, Leona McCurry, was part Native American. [7] A rebellious teenager, he allegedly punched his high school principal and spent some time drifting, hopping rail cars to Chicago, then California, then back again. In 1930, following the death of their mother Ruth, Ralph Jr. and Stanley are living with their maternal grandparents in Butler County, Kansas, while their father, Ralph Sr. was enumerated with his parents in Sedgwick County, Kansas. [46][47] Sasha has since transferred to the University of Southern California, and Malia graduated from Harvard in 2021 and began working as a writer on the Amazon Prime Video television series Swarm.[48]. Ralph Waldo Emerson Dunham and Ruth Dunham ne Armour A Family Facing Tragedy. According to his third wife, Sarah, Onyango had converted from tribal religion to Roman Catholicism early in life. "[106] As a young man, Onyango learned to speak, read and write in English, the language of British colonial administration in Kenya. They lived in an apartment in the Wedgewood Estates in the Wedgwood, Seattle neighborhood. Dunham was known as Stanley Ann Dunham through high school, then as Ann Dunham, Ann Obama, Ann Soetoro, a.k.a. Stanley Dunham was the maternal grandfather of Barack Obama. )[174][175] George was six months old when his father died in an automobile accident, after which he was raised in Nairobi by his mother and a French stepfather. [140] The American Obama brought his wife Michelle to Kenya three years later, and they met with Malik again while meeting many other relatives for the first time. [153] They have a daughter named Akinyi (b. [62], Ralph Dunham was Stanley Dunham's older brother and Obama's great-uncle, he served in the U.S. Army as an assignment and personnel officer during World War II. Kearney's youngest daughter, Mary Ann (Kearney) Dunham, was Stanley Dunham's paternal grandmother. Dr. Ann Dunham was an American anthropologist who specialized in the economic anthropology and rural development of Indonesia. His father's ancestors settled in Kempton, Indiana in the 1840s, before relocating to Kansas. not only does the linked article talk about Barack's grandfather, but nowhere does it say anything about Dunham-Bush. "[177] George Obama and the British journalist Damien Lewis published George's story in a 2011 book called Homeland. For some time, he was too traumatized to speak about his experiences. "I know his roots are from Kansas," she said. [3] His father's ancestors settled in Kempton, Indiana, in the 1840s, before relocating to Kansas. His older brother, Ralph, who lives in Florida, joined him on the trip, but Madelyn did not. Madelyn started working at the Bank of Hawaii in 1960, and was promoted as one of the first female bank vice presidents in 1970. [17][18], Dunham died in Honolulu, Hawaii, on February 8, 1992, and is interred in the Punchbowl National Cemetery. [19], Stanley Dunham's distant cousins include six U.S. presidents - and another president who is Dunham's grandson: James Madison, Harry Truman, Lyndon Johnson, Jimmy Carter, George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush, plus Barack Obama, his grandson. [16], As first lady, Michelle Obama sought to become a role model for women, an advocate for poverty awareness, education, nutrition, physical activity and healthy eating, and became a fashion icon. Next to Stanley Dunham's photo in the 1936 high school yearbook is just one phrase: "A loyal member of the Class of '36.". Obama's family in Kenya are members of the Jok'Obama, a clan belonging to the Luo people, the nation's second-largest ethnic group. [34] On April 12, 2009, it was reported that the Obamas had adopted a six-month-old Portuguese Water Dog given to them as a gift by Senator Ted Kennedy;[35] Malia and Sasha named the dog Bo. [66][67], Eleanor Dunham, Obama's great-aunt, was the younger sister of Stanley Armour Dunham and Ralph Dunham. [85] They have two daughters, Suhaila[86][87][88] and Savita. 1984). They proceeded to Spain where Michelle delivered a message about the initiative. Akumu took the name Habiba upon her conversion to Islam in her second marriage, to Salmin Orinda, a Muslim from Wagwe, near Homa Hills, South Nyanza. Dunham enlisted as a private in the U.S. Army on January 18, 1942, at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and served in the European Theatre of World War II with the 1830th Ordnance Supply and Maintenance Company, Aviation. Each of her four grandparents was multiracial. [57] Obama has said that his mother was the dominant figure of his formative years. Ruth is buried in Sunset Lawn Cemetery in El Dorado. [145], During his brother's 2008 presidential campaign, Malik Obama was a spokesman for the extended Obama family in Kenya. Madelyn Lee Payne. He converted to Judaism after 1970, during years of activism when he regarded Christianity as having been imposed on slaves. [18][19] In 1970s Honolulu, both women and the minority white population were routinely the target of discrimination. Since 2016, he has been the Executive Director of The Shangri La Museum of Islamic Art, Culture & Design in Honolulu. One sidelight: Ruth's sister, Doris Armour, was a Miss El Dorado during one of the city's corn carnivals, a three-day celebrat ion held annually between 1911 and 1929 that brought as many as 70,000 people to town. Stanley Armour Dunham (March 23, 1918 - February 8, 1992) was the maternal grandfather of U.S. President Barack Obama. [7] He married Madelyn Lee Payne on May 5, 1940, the night of her senior prom. [40], In August 2016, Sasha began working at Nancy's, a seafood restaurant in Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. Bush. [9] Madelyn Dunham gave birth to their daughter Stanley Ann Dunham, who was later known as Ann, at St. Francis Hospital in Wichita on November 29, 1942. Cooley is trying to compile a more detailed history of the family, but large chunks are missing. She said that he passed on the name of Hussein to his children, but not the religion. Also known as Akumu Nyanjoga and Sje. She was only 6 or 7 when the family left Kansas, she said. "Madelyn sometimes could not do a lot of the things the other girls could," the friend said. Barack Obama has called his wife Michelle Obama "the most quintessentially American woman I know". [183][187] Barack Obama lived with Onyango in the 1980s while a student at Harvard Law School in Cambridge. Kearney's youngest daughter, Mary Ann (Kearney) Dunham, was Stanley Dunham's paternal grandmother. [177] The article quoted George Obama as saying that he lived "on less than a dollar a month" and said that he "does not mention his famous half-brother in conversation" out of shame at his own poverty. Geni requires JavaScript! A maternal 3rd great-grandfather of Barack Obama, nicknamed "Fully". While Michelle and Barack Obama were campaigning in 2008, Robinson tended the Obamas' young children. [31], In his victory speech on the night of his election, President Obama repeated his promise to Sasha and Malia to get a puppy to take with them to the White House. And to this day the Obama family in Kenya is divided between Seventh-day Adventists and Muslims. Her presence was leaked to the media during Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign. Stanley Ann Dunham. Paternal grandfather to Barack Obama, he was born Onyango Obama. They had at least two children together: Abongo [Roy] and Auma; and also claimed Bernard and Abo Obama as sons by Barack Sr. She lived in Bracknell, Berkshire, England, until her death in 2021. Michelle Obama's extended family has said that people didn't talk about slavery time while they were growing up. [140] Although much of the Obama family has dispersed throughout Kenya and overseas, most, including Malik Obama, still consider their rural village on the shores of Lake Victoria to be their true home. There was no response, she said, although Madelyn Dunham did send macadamia nuts for the reunion three years ago. [20], In Barack Obama's memoir, Dreams From My Father, he mentions, "One of my earliest memories is of sitting on my grandfather's shoulders as the astronauts from one of the Apollo missions arrived at Hickam Air Force Base after a successful splashdown." "Some credit didn't count or something, and he went back and graduated with the other class," Kerns said. Close. [70] But her daughter Madelyn Dunham (Obama's maternal grandmother) "would turn her head in profile to show off her beaked nose, which along with a pair of jet-black eyes, was offered as proof of Cherokee blood". He studied philosophy at McGill University and cultural studies at the University of Victoria before getting his PhD degree from University of Hawaii at Mnoa. [150], Barack Obama's half-sister, born c. 1960, to Kezia, his father's first wife. [13][14], After two years of military service in Europe (19431945), Stanley was discharged from the U.S. Army on August 30, 1945. Stanley Armour Dunham. Ann attended high school there, and they stayed until she graduated in 1960. The Bunches later moved to Tennessee; in 1834 a daughter moved to Kansas, where Obama's mother was born four generations later. He worked as a shoemaker, a newspaper salesman, and in a lumber mill. Prescott Sheldon Bush. [36] In 2013, the family adopted a second Portuguese Water Dog named Sunny. [152][154] In 2011, Auma Obama was interviewed for Turk Pipkin's documentary Building Hope and was the subject of a German documentary film The Education of Auma Obama. In 1956 they moved to the Shorewood Apartments on Mercer Island, a Seattle suburb, where they lived until 1960 and where their daughter Ann attended Mercer Island High School. Dunham, the man whom Barack Obama would one day call Gramps, was a 26-year-old supply sergeant stationed near the English. Melvinia did not talk to relatives about his father. [170], Barack Obama's half-brother (also known as David Opiyo Obama), son of Barack Obama Sr. and his third wife, Ruth Baker, an American. 1940. UNITED STATES v. STANLEY(1987) No. She earned her PhD degree from the University of Hawaii at Mnoa and worked with the United States Agency for International Development, the Ford Foundation, and Women's World Banking, to promote the use of microcredit in order to combat global poverty. After the war, the family moved to Berkeley, California, so he could pursue study at the University of California, Berkeley and then eventually back to El Dorado, Kansas, where Dunham managed a furniture store. He died in a motorcycle accident several years after his father's death in a car accident. Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama, an American attorney and novelist, is his wife. She subsequently married again and moved to Tanganyika, now Tanzania. Through a common ancestor, Mareen Duvall, a wealthy Huguenot merchant who emigrated to Maryland in the 1650s, Stanley Dunham is related to former Vice-President Dick Cheney (an . Dunham and his brother were deployed to France six weeks after D-Day. The date of the document was estimated to be about 1930, which would mean that his grandfather had been born around 1895. [162], He has lived in Shenzhen, China, since 2002. [109] In his memoir, Obama recounted family descriptions of his grandfather's shocking physical state when released from prison: "When he returned to Alego he was very thin and dirty. They later divorced, and Barack . He is Maya Soetoro-Ng's father. [211], Michelle Obama's paternal grandfather was born on August 24, 1912, in Georgetown, South Carolina, and died on November 9, 1996, aged 84. [164][165] He is an accomplished pianist and has performed in concert. CIA-airlifted to Hawaii, Barack Obama Sr., with leis, stands with Stanley Dunham, President Obama's grandfather, on his right. "[107], Onyango was permanently scarred, suffering pain and requiring assistance in moving until his death. [35] The White House referred to Bo as the First Dog. Her name Akumu means "mysterious birth". They were married on October 3, 1915 in Wichita, Ralph a 21 year old restaurant employee and Ruth being only 15 years old. Friends of Obama's grandparents can see the similarities in the candidate's face. 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