She was the youngest daughter of Ralph Waldo Emerson Dunham Sr. and his second wife, Martha Mae Stonehouse. Fraser Robinson, Jr. Michelle Obama's grandfather was born on August 24, 1912 in Georgetown, South Carolina, and died on November 9, 1996, aged 84. [123] She lives in Nyang'oma Kogelo village, 30 miles west of western Kenya's main town, Kisumu, on the edge of Lake Victoria. [94][95], According to Ancestry.com's research in 2012, using a combination of historical documents and yDNA analysis, genealogists found that John Punch, the first documented African slave in the American British colonies, has been documented as likely an eleventh great-grandfather of Obama through his mother, Ann Dunham, and her Bunch ancestors. [14] She returned to speak at the 2012 Democratic National Convention,[15] and again during the 2016 Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, where she delivered a speech in support of the Democratic presidential nominee, and fellow first lady, Hillary Clinton. [16], As first lady, Michelle Obama sought to become a role model for women, an advocate for poverty awareness, education, nutrition, physical activity and healthy eating, and became a fashion icon. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Family_of_Barack_Obama&oldid=976188295#Fraser_Robinson,_Jr. In 1996 she married an Englishman, Ian Manners, although they have since divorced. [119] She is the sole surviving full sibling of Barack Obama Sr.[121], Sarah Onyango Obama was the third wife of Obama's paternal grandfather. function MSFPpreload(img) Barack Obama was raised by his mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, called Ann, and maternal grandparents Madelyn and Stanley Dunham. He married LaVaughn Delores Johnson (1915-2002) 17 October 1934 in Cook County, Illinois, United States. "[26][27] In July 2008, the family gave an interview to the television series Access Hollywood.

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Educated in the US at the University of Hawai'i and Harvard University, he returned to Kenya, where he became an economist with the government. [124][125] (She should not be confused with her stepdaughter of the same name, Sarah Obama, a daughter of Onyango's second wife Akumu.)[126]. [115][116], Michelle Obama's brother, born 1962. [206][207] Marian took Sasha and Malia to school daily. [37], As a high school student, Malia Obama spent a portion of the summer in 2014 and 2015 working in television studios in New York and Los Angeles. [185] 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. The family believes that after the Civil War, he worked as a Friendfield sharecropper for the rest of his life.

[105], Onyango worked as a mission cook and as a local herbalist. [72][70] Barack Obama visited Moneygall in 2011.

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