Subject:

Madelyn Dunham

  • Blogs

    May 15, 2012

    Was Stanley Ann Dunham, the President's Mother, Named for Bette Davis Character?

    History has now recorded a second version of how Barack Obama's mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, got her first name. Though Dunham told her Mercer Island High School classmates and others it was because her father Stanley Dunham wanted a boy, a relative says it was actually because her mother was such a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 18, 2010

    Obama's Inheritance, Two Books, and a Dog Make President a Modest Multi-millionaire

    First Dog, Value $1,600 Barack Obama inherited up to $500,000 from his grandmother, former Seattleite Madelyn Dunham, helping push his personal asset wealth to a somewhat modest $2.5 million or more, according to a just-released White House financial-disclosure statement. The inheritance is seco ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 24, 2008

    They're Not Famous

    Media were not allowed into that private memorial for Madelyn Dunham in Hawaii yesterday. But as her grandson, Barack Obama, has said before, Dunham's life, from Kansas to Hawaii and in between - that five-year stopoff in Mercer Island and Seattle - was a life most of the country lives. "She was one ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 3, 2008

    Obama Grandma Dies

    Media were not allowed into that private memorial for Madelyn Dunham in Hawaii yesterday. But as her grandson, Barack Obama, has said before, Dunham's life, from Kansas to Hawaii and in between - that five-year stopoff in Mercer Island and Seattle - was a life most of the country lives. "She was one ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 20, 2008

    Obama to Take Break

    Media were not allowed into that private memorial for Madelyn Dunham in Hawaii yesterday. But as her grandson, Barack Obama, has said before, Dunham's life, from Kansas to Hawaii and in between - that five-year stopoff in Mercer Island and Seattle - was a life most of the country lives. "She was one ... More >>

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