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As a child in Indonesia, Obama was called "Barry Soetoro", reflecting his stepfather's surname, or "Barry Obama", using his father's surname. [29] [30] [31] When he was ten years old, Obama returned to Honolulu to live with his maternal grandparents, Madelyn and Stanley Dunham, and has resided continuously in the United States since 1971.
Early life and career of Barack Obama. Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States, was born on August 4, 1961, in Honolulu, Hawaii [1] to Barack Obama, Sr. (1936–1982) (born in Oriang' Kogelo of Rachuonyo North District, [2] Kenya) and Stanley Ann Dunham, known as Ann (1942–1995) (born in Wichita, Kansas, United States).
Numerous lawsuits and ballot challenges, based on conspiracy theories related to Barack Obama 's eligibility for the United States presidency, were filed following his first election in 2008 and over the course of his two terms as president. These actions sought to have Obama disqualified from running for, or being confirmed for, the Presidency ...
Dreams from My Father. Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance (1995) is a memoir by Barack Obama that explores the events of his early years in Honolulu and Chicago until his entry into Harvard Law School in 1988. Obama originally published his memoir in 1995, when he was starting his political campaign for the Illinois Senate.
Soetoro met the divorced Ann Dunham at the East-West Center while both were students at the University of Hawaii, [8] [9] [10] and married on 15 March 1965. [10] [11] Soetoro, a geographer, [10] [12] returned to Indonesia in 1966 [13] to help map Western New Guinea [14] for the Indonesian government, while Dunham and her son Barack Obama moved into her parents' house in Honolulu to complete ...
Zeituni Onyango (/ z eɪ ˈ t ʌ n i ɒ n ˈ j ɑː ŋ ɡ oʊ / zay-TUN-ee on-YAHNG-goh; May 29, 1952 – April 7, 2014) was the half-aunt of United States President Barack Obama; she was born into the Luo tribe in Kenya.
Maya Kasandra Soetoro-Ng (née Soetoro; / ˈ m aɪ. ə s uː ˈ t ɔːr oʊ ˈ ɪ ŋ /; [1] born August 15, 1970) is an Indonesian-born American academic, who is a faculty specialist at the Spark M. Matsunaga Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution, based in the College of Social Sciences at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. She is also ...
Discipline. Anthropology. Stanley Ann Dunham (November 29, 1942 – November 7, 1995) was an American anthropologist who specialized in the economic anthropology and rural development of Indonesia. [1] She was the mother of Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States. Born in Wichita, Kansas, Dunham studied at the East–West Center ...