[91][92][93], Robert Wolfley, born in 1835, is one of Obama's maternal third great-grandfathers. Barack Obama's half-brother, born c. 1965, son of Barack Obama Sr. and his third wife Ruth Baker. [21] They were both delivered at University of Chicago Medical Center by their parents' friend and physician Anita Blanchard. Malik ran for governor of the Kenyan county of Siaya in 2013. [41] In the fall of 2016, Malia went on an 83-day trip to Bolivia and Peru. Married to Ralph Lee Berkebile. [181], At times using a variation of the name of his father, Onyango Obama,[182][183] Omar Okech Obama is a half-uncle of Barack Obama. [188][189] He was arrested on August 24, 2011, for driving under the influence, or DUI,[188] and was held in jail until September 9, 2011, on a federal immigration warrant. [105], Onyango worked as a mission cook and as a local herbalist. [59] There was brief media attention when Obama mistakenly identified the camp as Auschwitz during the campaign. [4] Carrie Nelson, Gabriel Robinson's daughter, is the keeper of family lore and the oldest living Robinson at 80 years old in 2008.[4].

[63][64], Eleanor Dunham, Obama's great-aunt, was the younger sister of Stanley Armour Dunham and Ralph Dunham.

He died July 17, 1895, and is buried in the Olathe Memorial Cemetery in Olathe, Kansas. [146] Prior to the 2016 United States presidential election, he stated that he supported Donald Trump, the candidate for the Republican Party.
Charles Thomas Payne is Madelyn Dunham's younger brother and Obama's great-uncle. [123] She lives in Nyang'oma Kogelo village, 30 miles west of western Kenya's main town, Kisumu, on the edge of Lake Victoria. Joseph Ndesandjo is the CEO of SiteOwl. [202], Marian Lois Robinson (born Marian Lois Shields, July 30, 1937), is descended from Dolphus Shields and his wife. [141], Malik lives in the Obamas' ancestral home, Nyang'oma Kogelo, a village of several hundred people, preferring its slow pace to that of the city. [160] Mark was educated in the US, graduating from Brown University; he studied physics at Stanford University, and received an MBA degree from Emory University. [94][95], According to Ancestry.com's research in 2012, using a combination of historical documents and yDNA analysis, genealogists found that John Punch, the first documented African slave in the American British colonies, has been documented as likely an eleventh great-grandfather of Obama through his mother, Ann Dunham, and her Bunch ancestors. After 17 years on the forefront of industry battles around integration, Joseph … )[173][174] George was six months old when his father died in an automobile accident, after which he was raised in Nairobi by his mother and a French stepfather. Michelle's earliest known relative on her father's side is her great-great grandfather Jim Robinson, born in the 1850s, who was an American slave on the Friendfield Plantation in Georgetown, South Carolina in the Low Country, where African Americans developed as the Gullah people and culture. [153] At the award ceremony, she received the bronze sculpture ‘Der Griff nach den Sternen’ (Reaching for the stars), solely made for the award, by artist Hannes Helmke. [203][204] Robinson was formerly a secretary at Spiegel catalog and a bank. They proceeded to Spain where Michelle delivered a message about the initiative. [157] She later became a private kindergarten director in Kenya. "[68] To date, no concrete evidence has surfaced of Cherokee heritage in the McCurry line. One aunt moved to Princeton, New Jersey, where she worked as a maid. [104] He joined the King's African Rifles during World War I.[106]. She and Barack Sr. separated in 1971 and divorced about 1973. [138] Although much of the Obama family has dispersed throughout Kenya and overseas, most, including Malik Obama, still consider their rural village on the shores of Lake Victoria to be their true home. [188] After an unsuccessful appeal, he was given a new deportation order in 1992. [72][70] Barack Obama visited Moneygall in 2011.

Descendants placed a headstone there in 2014. "[91] From 2011 to 2016, he served as director of the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center.
[4] Michelle Obama's family history traces from colonists and slavery in the South to Reconstruction to the Great Migration to northern cities, in her family's case, Cleveland and Chicago. "[176] George Obama and the British journalist Damien Lewis published George's story in a 2011 book called Homeland. Previously Joseph Ndesandjo was the Founder of 3Sixty Integrated.