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Stanley Armour Dunham, Ann Dunham, Maya Soetoro and Barack Obama, mid-1970s (l to r) 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 Honolulu.
A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama's Mother is a 2011 book by former The New York Times journalist Janny Scott.It is a biography of Ann Dunham, the mother of U.S. President Barack Obama.
Ann Dunham returned with her son to Honolulu and in January 1963 resumed her undergraduate education at the University of Hawaii. [10] In January 1964, Dunham filed for divorce, which was not contested. [6] Barack Obama, Sr. later graduated from Harvard University with an A.M. in economics and in 1965 returned to Kenya. [11] [12] [14]
Lolo Soetoro, Javanese given name: Martodihardjo, [82] [83] was the second husband of Ann Dunham (married on March 15, 1965) [84] and stepfather to Barack Obama. He is Maya Soetoro-Ng's father. After his divorce from Dunham, Soetoro married Erna Kustina. They had two children, Yusuf Aji Soetoro (b. 1981) and Rahayu Nurmaida Soetoro (b. 1984). [83]
Soetoro met the divorced Ann Dunham at the East-West Center while both were students at the University of Hawaii, [10] [11] [12] and married on 15 March 1965. [12] [13] Soetoro, a geographer, [12] [14] returned to Indonesia in 1966 [15] to help map Western New Guinea [16] for the Indonesian government, while Dunham and her son Barack Obama moved into her parents' house in Honolulu to complete ...
Dunham at the age of 59, competing on her horse Teddy Edwards, won her first individual Paralympic gold medal in the championship test grade Ia and also won silver in the freestyle test grade Ia. [6] [7] In the team open Dunham, with teammates Lee Pearson, Sophie Christiansen and Simon Laurens won the gold medal. This meant that Dunham has won ...
Obama Mama is a 2014 biographic documentary film about Ann Dunham by producer/director Vivian Norris. [1] It was co-produced with Brian Woods. [2] The film was a featured selection at the 2014 Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF), where it premiered in May, 2014 at the Kirkland Performance Center in Kirkland, Washington.
Stanley Armour Dunham was born in Wichita, Kansas, the younger of two sons to Ralph Waldo Emerson Dunham, Sr. (December 25, 1894, Sumner County, Kansas – October 4, 1970, Wichita, Kansas) and Ruth Lucille Armour (September 1, 1900, Hancock County, Illinois – November 25, 1926, Wichita, Kansas). [3]