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Stanley Armour Dunham (March 23, 1918 – February 8, 1992) was the maternal grandfather of Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States. He and his wife Madelyn Payne Dunham raised Obama from the age of 10 in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Aug 11, 2010 · Learn about the life and service of Stanley Armour Dunham, a quiet hero who fought in World War II, moved to Hawaii, and became the grandfather of Barack Obama. Read how he influenced his grandson's values and achievements as the 44th President of the United States.
Feb 13, 2023 · Obama’s grandfather Stanley Armour Dunham—who helped raise him—served with the 9th Air Force Division in World War II. Another photo featured his daughter Ann, with the insignia of an elite school in Lebanon on her shirt in the 1950s, where Stanley may have worked with the CIA or another U.S. government agency.
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Stanley Dunham died in Honolulu, Hawaii, on February 8, 1992, and is interred in the Punchbowl National Cemetery. Ancestry Dunham is a direct descendant of Jonathan Singletary Dunham, a prominent early American settler who left the Plymouth Colony to build the first gristmill in New Jersey.
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- Madelyn Lee Payne
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...
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Jun 5, 2012 · Barack Obama with his grandparents Stanley Armour Dunham and Madelyn Dunham in New York in the 1980s. Obama for America. By Michiko Kakutani. June 4, 2012. Barack Obama’s life, says his...
May 3, 2011 · In the media, Stanley Ann Dunham is often identified simply as "a white anthropologist from Kansas," or "a single mother on food stamps." But biographer Janny Scott argues that those...
