Yes, she absolutely was. And Barack Obama Senior was absolutely his dad. On the internet, there are many myths about who the president's parents were, but there is no credible proof to support any of these myths. The president's official birth certificate notes that Stanley Ann Dunham gave birth to a baby in a hospital in Honolulu in August of 1961; and people who worked at that hospital have said they remember her and the baby. Barack Obama has written lovingly about his mom (who died of cancer in 1995) and has often praised what he learned from her about tolerance and about the importance of studying.
No, there is no credible evidence that she ever did. She did go to Indonesia during her second marriage, however.
Madelyn Lee Payne Dunham was his mother's mother (deceased). His maternal grandfather, was Stanley Armour Dunham. His grandmother on his father's side is named: Akumu, she is living in Kenya.
His father was an economics student from Nairobi, his mother a white American anthropology student when they married. http://www.nndb.com/people/208/000055043/ Mother..White American AKA European American. English and Irish.
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His biological father was Barack Hussein Obama (Senior; his mother was Stanley Ann Dunham-- she preferred to be called Ann, rather than Stanley. The future president's dad was from Africa (Kenya), while his mom was originally from Kansas and living in Hawaii.
His father, Barack Hussein Obama Sr., was from Kenya. His mother, Ann Dunham, was from Kansas.
Maternal Side:His mother (Stanley) Ann Dunham was white; she was born in Wichita Kansas in 1942, raised in Seattle and then in Hawaii. She ultimately earned her PhD from the University of Hawaii in anthropology. She was the only daughter of Madelyn Lee Payne (born in Peru, Kansas 1922) and Stanley Armour Dunham (born in Wichita, Kansas 1918). The Dunham family has some Irish ancestry, some members of whom Mr. Obama finally got to meet in 2011 during a presidential trip to Ireland. Also, Robert Wolfley, President Obama's great, great, great, grandfather fought in the American Civil War.Paternal Side:Father Barack Obama, Sr. was black. He was born in Africa, in the country of Kenya, in 1936 and earned his BA in economics from the University of Hawaii and then studied at Harvard. His was one of three children born to mother Habiba Akumu Nyanjoga (born in Kenya 1918) and Hussein Onyango Obama (born in Kenya 1895). President Obama's paternal relatives generally are members of the Luo, Kenya's third largest ethnic group and largely concentrated in the western province of Nyanza, Kenya.
Barack Obama is African - American His mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, was born in Wichita, Kansas (U.S), and was of mostly English ancestry. His father, Barack Obama, Sr., was a Luo from Nyang'oma Kogelo, Kenya.
Barack Obama's mom was Stanley Ann Dunham, a woman from Kansas, and his father was Barack Obama Sr, a man from Kenya. They met at the University of Hawaii, where Barack Sr. was there on a scholarship. They were married in 1961, but divorced in 1964 when Barack Sr. went to Harvard Univ. His father remarried, but later on died in 1982.
his father was born in Kenya Africa
No. Obama's father was African (from Kenya), and his mother was American (from Kansas).
From the Luo language of Kenya. See the Related Link below.
Barack Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1961. His mother and father were both college students: Ann Dunham (a white woman, originally from Kansas) and Barack Obama Sr. (a black man, originally from Kenya in Africa).