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Madelyn Lee Payne Dunham ( / ˈdʌnəm / DUN-əm; October 26, 1922 [1] – November 2, 2008) was an American banker and the maternal grandmother of Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States. She and her husband Stanley Armour Dunham raised Obama from age ten in their Honolulu apartment.
Nov 3, 2008 · Madelyn Payne Dunham, the maternal grandmother of Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama, died Monday at the age of 86 after a battle with cancer, his campaign...
Nov 4, 2008 · Dunham, 86, Senator Barack Obama's grandmother, died late Sunday evening in Hawaii after battling cancer, which Obama announced upon arriving here Monday for a campaign stop on the eve of...
Nov 5, 2008 · By 24 hours, she missed out on discovering whether her grandson made history as the first African-American president of the United States. But Madelyn Dunham was a bit of a pioneer herself.
Nov 4, 2008 · CHARLOTTE, N.C. Madelyn Dunham, who watched from afar as her only grandson rapidly ascended the ranks of American politics to the brink of the presidency, did not live to see whether he was...
Oct 27, 2009 · On the night Barack Obama made history, becoming the first African-American elected president of the United States, he acknowledged how much his grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, had touched his...
Nov 4, 2008 · Sen. Barack Obama's grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, has died following a bout with cancer, Obama and his sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng, said Monday.
