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Stanley Armour Dunham, Ann Dunham, Maya Soetoro and Barack Obama, mid-1970s (left to right) On August 21, 1959, Hawaii became the 50th state to be admitted into the Union. . Dunham's parents sought business opportunities in the new state, and after graduating from high school in 1960, Dunham and her family moved to Honolu
The family of Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States, is a prominent American family active in law, education, activism and politics.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. [1]
She had two half-brothers, Barack Obama (born 1961), the 44th president of the United States, and Bayu Yusuf Aji Soetoro (born 1981), and a half-sister, Rahayu Nurmaida Soetoro (born 1984). [4] She also had an adoptive sister, Holiah Soetoro (1957–2010). [4] [5] Soetoro-Ng has said she was named after American poet Maya Angelou. [6]
Less than a month later, older sister Malia Obama was showered with birthday celebrations when she turned 26 on July 4. “Happy birthday, Malia,” her father captioned his post, which featured ...
Obama lived with his mother and half-sister, Maya Soetoro, in Hawaii for three years from 1972 to 1975 while his mother was a graduate student in anthropology at the University of Hawaii. [37] Obama chose to stay in Hawaii when his mother and half-sister returned to Indonesia in 1975, so his mother could begin anthropology field work. [38]
Barack and Michelle Obama were married on Oct. 3, 1992. One of seven children, Marian Lois Shields Robinson was born in Chicago on July 30, 1937. She attended two years of teaching college, married in 1960 and, as a stay-at-home mom, stressed the importance of education to her children.
Marian Shields Robinson, the mother of Michelle Obama who moved with the first family to the White House when son-in-law Barack Obama was elected president, has died. In her early 70s, Mrs ...
Obama's father, Barack Obama, Sr., the university's first foreign student from an African nation, [4] hailed from Oriang' Kogelo, Rachuonyo North District, in the Nyanza Province of western Kenya. [2] [5] Obama's mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, known as Ann, had been born in Wichita. They married on the Hawaiian island of Maui on February 2, 1961. [6]