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Stanley Ann Dunham (November 29, 1942 – November 7, 1995) was an American anthropologist who specialized in the economic anthropology and rural development of Indonesia. [ 1] . She was the mother of Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States .
Jan 6, 2024 · Stanley Ann Dunham, Barack Obama’s mother, wasn’t there when her son was elected 44th President of the United States. She never met his children, nor witnessed the “birtherism” conspiracy theory that her own child was a Kenyan immigrant spread like wildfire.
Apr 9, 2008 · Ann Soetoro was a teen mother who later got a Ph.D. in anthropology; a white woman from the Midwest who was more comfortable in Indonesia; a natural-born mother obsessed with her work; a...
Jan 22, 2009 · In 1960, Stanley Ann Dunham (1942-1995) graduates from Mercer Island High School. Although much has been made of the Midwestern upbringing of President Barack Obama's mother, Stanley Ann Dunham also lived in the Seattle area for five years when she was a teenager.
Apr 20, 2011 · Ann Dunham, who jettisoned the name Stanley upon emerging from childhood, was just 17 years old in the fall of 1960 when she became pregnant with the child of a charismatic Kenyan named Barack...
Oct 22, 2023 · Stanley Ann Dunham Soetoro, mother of former President Barack Obama, was blazing trails all over the world decades before her only son would grow up to be the first Black U.S. President.
May 1, 2011 · As Janny Scott makes clear in her incisive biography, A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama's Mother, the grandparents of whom he writes so affectionately had known their share...
Apr 20, 2011 · Stanley Ann Dunham is the overshadowed parent in histories of President Obama's childhood, ignored as a boring white lady from Kansas compared to Barack Obama Sr. of Kenya.
May 3, 2011 · Scott's biography of Obama's mother, A Singular Woman, traces Dunham's life and the relationship she had with her son, whose rise in the political world came largely after her death in 1995....
Obama’s mother, S. Ann Dunham, grew up in Kansas, Texas, and Washington state before her family settled in Honolulu. In 1960 she and Barack Sr. met in a Russian language class at the University of Hawaii and married less than a year later.
