Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
[clarification needed] The song celebrates the Irish ancestry of the then Democratic candidate for President of the United States, Barack Obama. The song was a minor hit in the Irish charts, peaking at number 24 in November 2008.
Barack Obama's parents met in 1960 while they were students at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.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.
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]
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
Birth name: Barack Hussein Obama Jr. Father: Barack Hussein Obama, goat herder-turned-economist. Mother: Stanley Ann (Dunham) Obama Soetoro, anthropologist. Marriage: Michelle (Robinson) Obama ...
Former President Barack Obama is spending the holidays as he usually does — golfing in Hawaii. But this year, he hugged a few babies along the way.
Madelyn Lee Payne Dunham (/ ˈ d ʌ n əm / DUN-əm; October 26, 1922 [1] – November 2, 2008) was an American banker and the maternal grandmother of Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States. She and her husband Stanley Armour Dunham raised Obama from age ten in their Honolulu apartment. She died on November 2, 2008, two days ...
Obama Sr.'s first wife, Kezia, later said she had granted her consent for him to marry a second wife in keeping with Luo customs. [23] On August 4, 1961, at the age of 18, Dunham gave birth to her first child, Barack Obama, in Honolulu. [24] Friends in the state of Washington recall her visiting with her month-old baby in 1961.