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Madelyn Dunham
Template:TOCnestleftMadelyn Lee Payne Dunham was the maternal grandmother of Barack Obama. she was the wife of Stanley Armour Dunham and the mother of Stanley Ann Dunham.
Early life
Madelyn Payne was born in the oil boomtown of Augusta, to stern Methodist parents who did not believe in drinking, playing cards or dancing. She was one of the best students in the graduating class of 1940[1].
Meeting Stanley
Four years older, Stanley Armour Dunham lived 17 miles east, in El Dorado. In 1920, El Dorado, an oil town, with a population of 12,000, seemed to exist solely for the purpose of drilling holes in the ground.
The Dunhams were Baptists. Unlike the Paynes, Stanley Dunham did not come from the white-collar crowd. Gregarious, friendly, challenging and loud, "he was such a loose wheel at times," said Clarence Kerns, from the El Dorado class of 1935. Others who knew Dunham described him as a salesman "who could char
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Madelyn Dunham
Maternal grandmother of Barack Obama
See also: Family of Barack Obama
Madelyn Dunham | |
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| Born | Madelyn Lee Payne (1922-10-26)October 26, 1922 Peru, Kansas, U.S. |
| Died | November 2, 2008(2008-11-02) (aged 86) Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S. |
| Resting place | Pacific Ocean off Koko Head, Oahu, Hawaii, U.S. |
| Other names | "Toot" |
| Alma mater | University of Washington |
| Occupation | Vice President at the Bank of Hawaii |
| Known for | Maternal grandmother of Barack Obama |
| Spouse | |
| Children | Stanley Ann Dunham |
| Relatives | Charles Thomas Payne (brother) Barack Obama (grandson) Maya Soetoro-Ng (granddaughter) |
Madelyn Lee Payne Dunham (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. She died on November 2, 2008, two days be
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Madelyn Dunham: Grandmother of Barack Obama
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. She was among the first female vice-presidents of a bank in Hawaii in an era when gender discrimination ruled. She was also unfailingly supportive of her daughter Ann, and Ann's son Barack Obama, at a time when racially mixed marriages were frowned upon by most Americans.
As a Presidential candidate, Obama always depicted his grandmother as a salt-of-the-earth Midwesterner who helped him keep his bearings during his formative and confused years in Hawaii, where, from the age of 10 to 18, he lived with his grandparents as he attended the exclusive and costly Punahou School. Madelyn Dunham's senior job at the Bank of Hawaii helped pay the fees.
"You did well," Obama would remember his grandmother telling him in a phone call after the sensational keynot