He died July 17, 1895, and is buried in the Olathe Memorial Cemetery in Olathe, Kansas. [189][190] He was arrested on August 24, 2011, for driving under the influence, or DUI,[189] and was held in jail until September 9, 2011, on a federal immigration warrant. [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]. [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. Madelyn Dunham was an intelligent girl raised by strict parents, said a friend who grew up with her and asked to remain anonymous. The Bunches later moved to Tennessee; in 1834 a daughter moved to Kansas, where Obama's mother was born four generations later. Salesman. During D-Day, this unit helped to support the 9th Air Force. [4] His parents were married in Wichita at a home on S. Saint Francis St. and opened The Travelers' Cafe on William Street, sandwiched between the old firehouse and the old Wichita City Hall. Stanley Dunham returned to El Dorado in 1985 for the 50th reunion of the Class of 1935. He was born in 1925. [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. He was rather a relative to former president Barack Obama, who was the 44th president of the US. Obama's grandfather Stanley Armour Dunhamwho helped raise himserved with the 9 th Air Force Division in World War II. [180][181] George also appeared in the 2012 film, 2016: Obama's America, an anti-Obama documentary. There was no response, she said, although Madelyn Dunham did send macadamia nuts for the reunion three years ago. Following his mother's suicide, his father abandoned the family and Stanley and his older brother, Ralph Emerson Dunham, were sent to live with their maternal grandparents in El Dorado, Kansas. [158] Ruth Baker was a 1954 graduate of Brookline High School in Brookline, Massachusetts, and a 1958 graduate of Simmons College in Boston with a degree in business. They had two children, Yusuf Aji Soetoro (b. In 2018, statues of Michelle and Barack were erected in Moneygall. In 1955, after the Dunhams moved to Seattle, Washington, Dunham worked as a salesman for the Standard-Grunbaum Furniture Company, and his daughter Ann attended middle school. [121], Sarah Onyango Obama was the third wife of Obama's paternal grandfather. [167][168] He published a memoir in 2013, entitled, Cultures: My Odyssey of Self-Discovery. [66][67], Eleanor Dunham, Obama's great-aunt, was the younger sister of Stanley Armour Dunham and Ralph Dunham. He served as a private in Company A, 145th Ohio Infantry during the American Civil War. [49][50] He often referred to his family during his candidacy and two terms as president. The Court based its decision on the principle that the First Amendment protects the right to receive information and ideas . Madelyn Dunham was vice president of a bank there and still lives in Hawaii. In 1957, Dunham started working for the Doces Majestic Furniture Company. Stanley Armour Dunham's distant cousins include six US presidents: James Madison, Harry Truman, Lyndon Johnson, Jimmy Carter, George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush. Stanley Dunham has no relationship with President George Walker Bush who was the 43rd president of the US. His second marriage to Rose Ella Cohen produced six more children. "Some credit didn't count or something, and he went back and graduated with the other class," Kerns said. [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. Stanley Armour Dunham who was born on March 23, 1918, and died on February 8, 1992, was a sergeant of Published on 5 days ago 1 min read Although previously he had worked closely with the British, Onyango became bitterly anglophobic after his experiences in Kamiti Prison.[110]. They said it's so much easier to tell the truth because you just don't have to worry about it," Wolf said. It is yet another stalking horse for the NWO. Extended family from her mother's Shields ancestors also reside in Georgia and throughout the South. [149] He attended the third presidential debate as one of Trump's guests. He is one of America's most prominent African-American rabbis, known for acting as a bridge between mainstream Jewry and African American Jews. In 1956 they moved to the Shorewood Apartments on Mercer Island, a Seattle suburb. [40], In August 2016, Sasha began working at Nancy's, a seafood restaurant in Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. Hawaii. He wasn't ever any real trouble," Kerns said. [7] He married Madelyn Lee Payne on May 5, 1940, the night of her senior prom. In addition to Obama, Stanley is related to six US presidents: James Madison, Harry S. Truman, Lyndon B. Johnson, Jimmy Carter, George H. W. Bush, and George W. Is Stanley Dunham Related To George Bush? [17][18], Barack and Michelle Obama have two daughters: Malia Ann (/mli/), born July 4, 1998,[19][20] and Natasha Marian (known as Sasha /s/), born June 10, 2001. They came to Wichita to shop and attend dances at the Blue Moon on South Oliver, where the big bands of Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman and others played. 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. to application by Stanley Ann to amend her US passport, June 29, 1967. Bush. That comes from his ancestors. Obama's family in Kenya are members of the Jok'Obama, a clan belonging to the Luo people, the nation's second-largest ethnic group. When Seventh-day Adventist missionaries visited the Kendu Bay area many people were baptized into the church, including Onyango. [142] They were best men at each other's weddings. What nationality is the name Dunham? Kearney's youngest daughter, Mary Ann (Kearney) Dunham, was Stanley Dunham's paternal grandmother. [8] Stanley married Madelyn Payne on May 5, 1940, which was the night of Madelyn's senior prom. 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. Now, researchers at Ancestry.com. "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)." [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. He served in Europe with the 1830th Ordnance Supply and Maintenance Company, Aviation. "I know his roots are from Kansas," she said. [174] He received little attention until featured in an article in the Italian-language edition of Vanity Fair in August 2008 during the US presidential campaign. 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. [183] He later dropped out of school and changed his name to O. Onyango Obama. [4] His parents were married on October 3, 1915, at a home on South Saint Francis St. in Wichita, and opened The Travelers' Cafe on William Street situated between the old firehouse and the old Wichita City Hotel. When we arrived there were no German soldiers anywhere around that I knew about. "[106] As a young man, Onyango learned to speak, read and write in English, the language of British colonial administration in Kenya. 86-393 Argued: April 21, 1987 Decided: June 25, 1987. [36] In 2013, the family adopted a second Portuguese Water Dog named Sunny. S urely, Stanley Dunham was gazing skyward 65 years ago, on D-Day. )[120], Aunt of U.S. President Obama and elder sister of his father, daughter of Hussein Onyango and his second wife, Habiba Akumu Obama. [102] (One source gives 18701975 as his dates of birth and death, possibly based on his tombstone in his home village. In 1996 she married an Englishman, Ian Manners, although they have since divorced. Contents 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". [189] After an unsuccessful appeal, he was given a new deportation order in 1992. [152][154] In 2011, Auma Obama was interviewed for Turk Pipkin's documentary Building Hope and was the subject of a German documentary film The Education of Auma Obama. [40] They met with Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the former president of Liberia and the first elected female head of state in Africa. He became a worker for the United States Postal Service. [70] She reportedly held that as a "source of considerable shame" and "blanched whenever someone mentioned the subject and hoped to carry the secret to her grave". "The parents, most of them, approved," the friend said. She had three children with Onyango: daughters Sarah and Auma, and son Barack (Barack Obama's father). She subsequently married again and moved to Tanganyika, now Tanzania. Obama writes in his memoir, Dreams From My Father, "Id arrived at an unspoken pact with my grandparents: I could live with them and they'd leave me alone so long as I kept my trouble out of sight. [12][13][14], The family then moved to Honolulu, Hawaii, where Dunham found a better furniture store opportunity. [46][47] Sasha has since transferred to the University of Southern California, and Malia graduated from Harvard in 2021 and began working as a writer on the Amazon Prime Video television series Swarm.[48]. [28] Malia and Sasha both graduated from the private Sidwell Friends School in Washington,D.C., the same school that Chelsea Clinton, Tricia Nixon Cox, Archibald Roosevelt and the grandchildren of Joe Biden (when he was Vice President) attended. 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[188], Omar Okech Obama was subject to a deportation order in 1989. Paternal grandfather to Barack Obama, he was born Onyango Obama. | 2020 Pennsylvania Ave. NW - Washington - DC . They met in Wichita as war broke out in Europe, then eloped, according to the 2004 re-release of Obama's 1996 autobiography, "Dreams from My Father." [63] In 2009, Payne spoke about his war experience: Ohrdruf was in that string of towns going across, south of Gotha and Erfurt. [200] Some of Michelle's relatives still reside in South Carolina. [24][25] 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. His mother later came back to Hawaii to pursue graduate studies, but when she returned to Indonesia in 1977 for her master's fieldwork, Obama stayed in the United States with his grandparents. [62] There was brief media attention when Obama mistakenly identified the camp as Auschwitz during the campaign. On July 4, 2008, Sarah Obama attended the United States Independence Day celebrations in Nairobi, hosted by Michael Ranneberger, the US ambassador in Kenya. [64], Payne appeared in the visitor's gallery at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado, when his great-nephew was nominated for President. Dunham and his brother were deployed to France six weeks after D-Day. Indeed, Stanley Dunham (according to that article) seems only to have been a furniture salesman, rather than an . Half brother of Virginia Mae Goeldner and Elenor Belle Berkebile. [71] To date, no concrete evidence has surfaced of Cherokee heritage in the McCurry line. Although she was not a blood relation, Barack Obama calls her "Granny Sarah". Cooley is trying to compile a more detailed history of the family, but large chunks are missing. 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