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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. She was the mother of Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States.
Jan 6, 2024 · Stanley Ann Dunham had a lifelong influence on her son, but tragically, she died in November 1995 — 13 years before Barack Obama would be elected president. Stanley Ann Dunham, Barack Obama’s mother, wasn’t there when her son was elected 44th President of the United States.
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...
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.
Nov 16, 2020 · To better understand the history of our 44th president before reading his new memoir A Promised Land, we put together some key facts on the lives of Ann Dunham and Barack Obama Sr., the timeline of their relationship, and their role in President Obama's early life.
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...
Mar 14, 2008 · People who knew Stanley Ann Dunham Soetoro well say they see her influence in her son, Barack Obama.
May 2, 2011 · In it, we meet a very nonordinary woman, born Stanley Ann Dunham, “singular” from her naming onward. (“My father wanted a son,” she would say, “but he got me.”)
In 1995, Stanley Ann Dunham died of ovarian cancer in Manoa, Hawaii, just short of her 53rd birthday. As a pioneering anthropologist and a lifelong supporter of women’s rights, Dunham worked to improve the economies of rural communities around the world.
Jan 21, 2011 · She was christened Stanley Ann Dunham because her parents yearned for a boy. Born in Kansas, she was the only child of hard working middle class parents who kept moving to improve their lives.
