Onyango was the fifth son of his mother, Nyaoke, who was the first of the five wives of his father, Obama. She was born on January 17, 1964, in Chicago, Illinois, and is now 58 years old. ", Stanley Armour Dunham (March 23, 1918 February 8, 1992) was the American grandfather of U.S. President Barack Obama. But, Kerns said, Stanley Dunham wasn't worse than any other high school kid. I live well even now. Before the Invasion of Normandy, the brothers once met accidentally as Stanley Dunham went in search of rations at a hotel in London, where his brother Ralph Dunham happened to be staying. [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 Ann Dunham (daughter) Barack Obama (grandson) Ralph Waldo Emerson Dunham, Sr. and Ruth Lucille Armour (parents) [1] Other work. [105] Barack Obama relates how his step-grandmother Granny Sarah (Sarah Onyango Obama) describes his grandfather: "Even from the time that he was a boy, your grandfather Onyango was strange. He worked as a shoemaker, a newspaper salesman, and in a lumber mill. 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. [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. Prescott Sheldon Bush. [84] Perry Ng works for the University of Ottawa. 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. [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. Onyango was then subject to torture due to suspicions that he was an associate of the Mau Mau rebels. [186] Onyango's attorneys said that his defense at the December 3, 2013, deportation hearing would be a reliance on the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, because Onyango had resided in the U.S. since before January 1, 1972, the cutoff date of the 1986 amnesty. Raised on the South Side of Chicago,[8] Michelle Obama is a graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Law School,[9] and spent her early legal career working at the law firm Sidley Austin, where she met her husband. [citation needed], Margaret Arlene Payne, Obama's great-aunt, was the younger sister of Madelyn Dunham and Charles Payne. [40] They met with Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the former president of Liberia and the first elected female head of state in Africa. [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. The date of the document was estimated to be about 1930, which would mean that his grandfather had been born around 1895. Now, researchers at Ancestry.com. [74][72] Barack Obama visited Moneygall in 2011. and Phoebe (18791920?). Ng and his younger brother, Perry, were born and raised in Burlington, Ontario, Canada. The tuition fees for the prestigious preparatory school were paid with the aid of scholarships. MSNBC's Dan Abrams gets the story behind the story. [160] Mark Ndesandjo runs an Internet company called WorldNexus that advises Chinese corporations how best to reach international customers. Obama's wider ancestry is made up of people of Kenyan (Luo), African-American, and Old Stock American (including originally English, Scots-Irish, Welsh, German, and Swiss) ancestry. She wrote numerous research articles and two books.[68][69]. )[120], Aunt of U.S. President Obama and elder sister of his father, daughter of Hussein Onyango and his second wife, Habiba Akumu Obama. During D-Day, this unit helped to support the 9th Air Force. The Obama family is concentrated in the western Kenyan province of Nyanza. It is said of him that he had ants up his anus, because he could not sit still. [32] The selection was slow because Malia is allergic to animal dander;[33] the president subsequently said that the choice had been narrowed down to either a labradoodle or a Portuguese Water Dog, and that they hoped to find a shelter animal. [139] Born and raised in Nairobi, Kenya,[140] he earned a degree in accounting from the University of Nairobi. [161] Mark was educated in the US, graduating from Brown University; he studied physics at Stanford University, and received an MBA degree from Emory University. "[106] As a young man, Onyango learned to speak, read and write in English, the language of British colonial administration in Kenya. He is one of America's most prominent African-American rabbis, known for acting as a bridge between mainstream Jewry and African American Jews. Michelle's earliest known relative on her father's side is her great-great grandfather Jim Robinson, born in the 1850s, who was an American slave on the Friendfield Plantation in Georgetown, South Carolina in the Low Country, where African Americans developed as the Gullah people and culture. The magazines, they have exaggerated everything I think I kind of like it here. From 2008 until 2014, he served as head coach of men's basketball at Oregon State University. [146], Malik ran for governor of the Kenyan county of Siaya in 2013. [197] Onyango is referred to as "Aunti Zeituni" in Obama's memoir Dreams from My Father. [178] In later interviews, George contradicted this account. 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. Barack Hussein Obama. Stanley Armour Dunham (March 23, 1918 - February 8, 1992) was the maternal grandfather of U.S. President Barack Obama. She and two of her sisters married three Dunham brothers. [106] He joined the King's African Rifles during World War I.[108]. According to his third wife, Sarah, Onyango had converted from tribal religion to Roman Catholicism early in life. 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. She also remembers playing with dolls with Stanley Ann briefly. [158] She followed Obama Sr. back to Kenya five weeks later, and married him in Kenya in a civil ceremony on December 24, 1964. Cooley is trying to compile a more detailed history of the family, but large chunks are missing. Ralph Waldo Emerson Dunham and Ruth Dunham ne Armour A Family Facing Tragedy. Also known as Akumu Nyanjoga and Sje. [22] Sasha was the youngest child to reside in the White House since JohnF. KennedyJr. arrived as an infant in 1961. [7] He married Madelyn Lee Payne on May 5, 1940, the night of her senior prom. She was granted asylum in 2010. [167][168] He published a memoir in 2013, entitled, Cultures: My Odyssey of Self-Discovery. When she died, Robbie, a widow, left the house to her mother, Marian, and father, Fraser Robinson, who moved downstairs. Stanleys first ancestor to be born in the United States was Jonathan Singletary Dunham, born in Newbury, Massachusetts in 1640. "I'm sure he had friends, but I don't know if he created long-lasting friends or relationships.". [65] He was the assistant director of the University of Chicago's Library. [5], Jim married twice, first to a woman named Louiser, with whom he had two sons, Gabriel and Fraser, Michelle Obama's great-grandfather. [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". [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. 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]. His wife told his grandson Obama: "From that day on, I saw that he was now an old man. Stanley Dunham has no relationship with President George Walker Bush who was the 43rd president of the US. Dunham and his brother were deployed to France six weeks after D-Day. The family believes that after the Civil War, he worked as a Friendfield sharecropper for the rest of his life. The Bunches later moved to Tennessee; in 1834 a daughter moved to Kansas, where Obama's mother was born four generations later. [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. [116][119], In his memoir Dreams from My Father, Obama wrote that Akumu was miserable in her marriage and abandoned Onyango Obama and her children with him. Obama, Sr., who left Hawaii for Harvard in 1962, divorced Dunham in 1964. Ruth is buried in Sunset Lawn Cemetery in El Dorado. Salesman. Linguistically, Luo is one of the Nilotic languages. 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. His widow Madelyn took care of her daughter in Hawaii in the months before Ann died in 1995 at age 52. [129], During the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign, she protested attempts to portray Obama as a foreigner to the United States or as a Muslim, saying that while Obama's grandfather had been a Muslim, "In the world of today, children have different religions from their parents. Stanley Armour Dunham (GEORGE BUSH'S COUSIN) (March 23, 1918 - February 8, 1992) was the maternal grandfather of the 44th U.S. President Barack Obama. When Seventh-day Adventist missionaries visited the Kendu Bay area many people were baptized into the church, including Onyango. Madelyn Lee Payne . [162] Through his mother, he is Jewish. They said it's so much easier to tell the truth because you just don't have to worry about it," Wolf said. A daughter was born to the family, but her name has not been discovered, and she is believed to have died as a child. [4] Research by a genealogy team at Ancestry.com, published in 2012, stated that Obama is likely descended from the African slave John Punch through his mother's Bunch line, with generations of African Americans who gradually "married white" and became landowners in colonial Virginia. [6] A rebellious teenager, Dunham allegedly punched his high school principal and spent some time drifting, hopping rail cars to Chicago, California, and back again. According to " The Riddle of Barack Obama: A Psychobiography " by Avner Falk, Dunham suffered a traumatic loss when his mother, Ruth Lucille Armour, committed suicide on . RT @dom_lucre: Did you know that President Obama's Grandfather named Stanley Dunham was in the CIA assigned to Hawaii to spy on Frank Marshall Davis and is also the cousin of George Bush Sr.? [57] Obama has said that his mother was the dominant figure of his formative years. 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