Stanley Ann Dunham (Nov. 29, 1942 - Nov. 7, 1995) was born on November 29, 1942 in Wichita, Kansas, to Madelyn Payne (b. Oct. 1922-) and Stanley Armour Dunham (March 3, 1918 - Feb. 8, 1992). Both of her parents were born in Kansas, met in Wichita, and married on May 5, 1940. Born in Kansas, Ann Dunham spent her childhood in California, Oklahoma, Texas and Kansas and her teenage years in Mercer Island, Washington, and much of her adult life in Hawaii and Indonesia. Dunham enrolled at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. While attending a Russian language class, Dunham met Barack Obama, Sr. (1936 - Nov. 24, 1982), the school's first African student. At the age of 23, Obama had come to Hawaii to pursue his education, leaving behind a pregnant wife and infant son in his hometown of Nyang’oma Kogelo in Kenya. Dunham and Obama were married on the Hawaiian island of Maui on February 2, 1961, despite parental opposition from both families. Dunham was three months pregnant at the time of her marriage. Obama Sr. eventually informed Dunham about his first marriage in Kenya, but claimed he was divorced. Years later, she would discover this was false. Obama Sr.'s first wife, Kezia Aoko (also known as Kezia Obama: b. c.1940 - ), later said she had granted her consent for him to marry a second wife, in keeping with Luo customs.
On August 4, 1961, at the age of 18, Dunham gave birth to her first child, Barack Obama II. By January 1962, she had enrolled at the University of Washington, and was living as a single mother in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Seattle with her son while her husband continued his studies in Hawaii. Dunham filed for divorce in Honolulu in January 1964. Obama Sr. did not contest, and the divorce was granted. In 1982, Obama Sr. was killed in an car accident. (Referred to the related sites of "Wikipedia")
Probably people around Dunham and Obama Sr. would have considered that their marriage was reckless at that time; Nobody would have imagined that their son becomes the first African American to hold the White House in the future. Their marriage was turned out to have been a most significant marriage of World History.
*On March 1, 1890, Fulmoth's daughter Mary Ann Kearney (Sept. 19, 1869 - Aug. 13, 1936) married Jacob William Dunham (Feb. 7, 1863 - Aug. 13, 1936) who had the ancestors named Samuel Hinckley (d. 1662) and Sarah Soole Hinckley (d. Aug. 18, 1656) of 17th century Massachusetts, who are also the ancestors of the 43rd US President George W. Bush. Consequently, Obama and Bush share the same great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandparents: They are amazingly 11th cousins!
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