His older brother, Ralph, who lives in Florida, joined him on the trip, but Madelyn did not. During D-Day, this unit helped to support the 9th Air Force. [183] He later dropped out of school and changed his name to O. Onyango Obama. a Kenyan economist, met his mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, when both were students in Hawaii, where Barack was born on August 4, 1961. She was born on January 17, 1964, in Chicago, Illinois, and is now 58 years old. [2][3][4][5][6], Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama (born January 17, 1964) is an American lawyer, university administrator, and writer who served as the First Lady of the United States from 2009 to 2017. During D-Day, this unit helped to support the 9th Air Force. Ralph Bunche, American delegate to the United Nations, is thought by historian Paul Heinegg to have likely been an African-American descendant of the Bunch family via South Carolina and Detroit, Michigan. When she returned to Indonesia in 1977 for her Masters' fieldwork, Obama stayed in the United States with his grandparents. [96][97], According to Ancestry.com's research in 2012, using a combination of historical documents and yDNA analysis, genealogists found that John Punch, the first documented African slave in the Colony of Virginia, has been documented as likely an eleventh great-grandfather of Obama through his mother, Ann Dunham, and her Bunch ancestors. Obama's mother died of cancer in 1995. Obama's immediate family circle was the first family of the United States from 2009 to 2017, and are the first such family of African-American descent. Malik garnered a meager 2,792 votes, about 140,000 votes behind the eventual winner. Stanley Armour Dunham is the maternal grandfather of Barack Obama. He wasn't ever any real trouble," Kerns said. The family is found living with Ruth's parents in the 1920 federal census of Sedgwick County, Kansas. [26], Stanley Armour Dunhams distant cousins include six US presidents: James Madison, Harry Truman, Lyndon Johnson, Jimmy Carter, George H. W. Bush and George W. [122][unreliable source? Kearney and his wife are buried in Fairview Cemetery in Labette County, Kansas. 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. They later divorced, and Barack . 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. [135] On March 22, 2009, Kezia Obama made a guest appearance on the British television show Chris Moyles' Quiz Night. [200] Melvinia became pregnant at about age 15 and had a biracial son, Dolphus T. Shields, born into slavery about 1860. [2][3], Dunham was born in Wichita, Kansas, the second child of Ralph Waldo Emerson Dunham, Sr. and Ruth Lucille Armour. [179] CNN quoted him as saying, "I was brought up well. 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". Half brother of Virginia Mae Goeldner and Elenor Belle Berkebile. When she died, Robbie, a widow, left the house to her mother, Marian, and father, Fraser Robinson, who moved downstairs. She became an anthropologist, specializing in economic anthropology and rural development. 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Geni requires JavaScript! She remembered her cousin's family, like her own, emphasized education. [198] She entered the US in 2000 on a temporary visa with her son who was going to school; she applied in 2002 for political asylum due to unrest in Kenya and ethnic conflict. [175], He told The Times, "Life in Huruma is good." In 1957 Stanley began working for the Doces Majestic Furniture Company. In 1957, Dunham started working for the Doces Majestic Furniture Company. George W. Bush is George Washington's fourth cousin 10 times removed . 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. For some time, he was too traumatized to speak about his experiences. [6] Through another common ancestor, Hans Gutknecht, a Swiss German from Bischwiller, Alsace whose three sons resettled in Germantown, Pennsylvania as well as the Kentucky frontier in the mid-1700s, Stanley Dunham is President Harry S. Truman's fourth cousin, twice removed.[28][29][30]. Stanley Dunham was the maternal grandfather of Barack Obama. Now, researchers at Ancestry.com. [180][181] George also appeared in the 2012 film, 2016: Obama's America, an anti-Obama documentary. The family lived briefly in El Dorado when she was about 8 years old - just in the year 1955, said Lisa Cooley, curator of education and research librarian for the Butler County History Center. His widow Madelyn took care of her daughter in Hawaii in the months before Ann died in 1995 at age 52. He was tried in a magistrates' court either on charges of sedition or being a member of a banned organization. Descendants placed a headstone there in 2014. She and Barack Sr. separated in 1971 and divorced about 1973. [37], As a high school student, Malia Obama spent a portion of the summer in 2014 and 2015 working in television studios in New York and Los Angeles. [41][42] In the fall of 2016, Malia went on an 83-day trip to Bolivia and Peru. He served in the ministries of transportation and finance. After Obama spoke at the 2004 Democratic Convention, Madelyn Dunham's friends from Augusta wrote her letters saying how impressed they were with her grandson, predicting that someday he would run for president, the friend said. 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 . 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. )[120], Aunt of U.S. President Obama and elder sister of his father, daughter of Hussein Onyango and his second wife, Habiba Akumu Obama. He married Madelyn Lee Payne (1922-2008) 5 May 1940 in El Dorado, Kansas, United States. Cooley is trying to compile a more detailed history of the family, but large chunks are missing. [174] According to Time, George "has repeatedly denied that he feels abandoned by Obama". It is yet another stalking horse for the NWO. Dunham and his brother were deployed to France six weeks after D-Day. [136] Her sister, Jane, is the 'Auntie Jane' mentioned at the very start of Dreams from My Father; she telephoned Obama in the US in 1982 to tell him that his father had been killed in a car accident in Kenya. [214] Her nuclear family moved into a small apartment on the second floor in their house while she was still a young child. A maternal 3rd great-grandfather of Barack Obama, nicknamed "Fully". [158] She later became a private kindergarten director in Kenya. She subsequently married again and moved to Tanganyika, now Tanzania. Indeed, Stanley Dunham (according to that article) seems only to have been a furniture salesman, rather than an . [27] 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 eighth cousin once removed). He died in a motorcycle accident several years after his father's death in a car accident. This portrayed him as living in poverty, shame, and obscurity. She said that he passed on the name of Hussein to his children, but not the religion. [13][14], After two years of military service in Europe (19431945), Stanley was discharged from the U.S. Army on August 30, 1945. [169] In it, he accused their father Barack Sr. of abuse. Dunham died in 1992. He served as a sergeant in the U.S. Army during World War II, enlisting just after the attacks on Pearl Harbor. [158] She was a suburban elementary school teacher when she met and began dating Barack Sr. in Cambridge in June 1964, a month before his return to Kenya in August 1964. [182], At times using a variation of the name of his father, Onyango Obama,[183][184] Omar Okech Obama is a half-uncle of Barack Obama. [82] Konrad Ng is a U.S. Ralph Dunham was born on Christmas day, 1894 in Wichita, and Ruth Armour was born six years later on September 1, 1900 in Illinois. [49][56] The Ann Dunham Soetoro Endowment in the Anthropology Department at the University of Hawaii at Mnoa and the Ann Dunham Soetoro Graduate Fellowships at the EastWest Center (EWC) in Honolulu, Hawaii, are named in her honor. [17], The most recent native European ancestor was Falmouth Kearney, a farmer who emigrated from Moneygall, County Offaly, Ireland, during the Great Irish Famine and settled in Jefferson Township, Tipton County, Indiana, United States. [137] She died on April 13, 2021. Their daughter Stanley Ann, Obama's mother, was born at Fort Leavenworth. Married to Ralph Lee Berkebile. Obama grew up with her and remembered that when he was a child, his grandmother "read me the opening lines of the Declaration of Independence and told me about the men and women who marched for equality because they believed those words put to paper two centuries ago should mean something."[25]. [218] When Barack Obama settled in Chicago after graduating law school, he moved into this same apartment. not only does the linked article talk about Barack's grandfather, but nowhere does it say anything about Dunham-Bush. MSNBC's Dan Abrams gets the story behind the story. [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. 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