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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).
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 ...
Designated NYCL. March 19, 1974. The Schinasi House is a 12,000-square-foot (1,100 m 2), 35-room marble mansion located at 351 Riverside Drive on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City. It was built in 1907 for Sephardic Jewish tobacco baron Morris Schinasi. Completed in 1909 at the northeast corner of West 107th Street and Riverside ...
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.
86002515 [ 1 ] Added to NRHP. September 11, 1986. The University Settlement Society of New York is an American organization which provides educational and social services to immigrants and low-income families, [ 2 ] located at 184 Eldridge Street (corner of Eldridge and Rivington Streets) on the Lower East Side of the Manhattan borough of New ...
Grand Street Settlement. Grand Street Settlement is a historic social service institution on the Lower East Side and Brooklyn in New York City, United States. The institute was founded [1] in 1916 in response to the needs of immigrants from Eastern and Southern Europe who were settling in the area. Over 17,500 individuals currently participate ...
Raila Odinga was born at the Anglican Church Missionary Society Hospital in Maseno, Kisumu District, Nyanza Province on 7 January 1945 to Mary Juma Odinga and Jaramogi Oginga Odinga. His father served as the first Vice President of Kenya under President Jomo Kenyatta. [8] He is a member of the Luo ethnic group. [9]
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 ...