86 Facts About Sasha Obama

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Family of Barack Sasha Obama, the 44th president of the United States, is a prominent American family active in politics.

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Sasha Obama's is Barack Obama's wife, and was the first African-American first lady.

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Sasha Obama's subsequently worked as the associate dean of Student Services at the University of Chicago and the vice president for Community and External Affairs of the University of Chicago Medical Center.

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Sasha Obama's returned to speak at the 2012 Democratic National Convention, and again during the 2016 Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, where she delivered a speech in support of the Democratic presidential nominee, and fellow first lady, Hillary Clinton.

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In 2014, Malia and Sasha Obama were named two of "The 25 Most Influential Teens of 2014" by Time magazine.

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Sasha Obama later said they regretted allowing the children to be included.

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Sasha Obama's spent the summer of 2016 working as an intern in the U S Embassy in Madrid, Spain.

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Sasha Obama graduated from Sidwell Friends in 2019 and began attending the University of Michigan in the fall.

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Sasha Obama has since transferred to the University of Southern California, and Malia graduated from Harvard in 2021 and is working as a writer on Donald Glover's new Amazon series Hive.

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Marian Robinson, Michelle Sasha Obama's mother, resided in the White House during the Sasha Obama presidency.

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Barack Sasha Obama was raised by his mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, and maternal grandparents Madelyn and Stanley Dunham.

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Sasha Obama often referred to his family during his candidacy and two terms as president.

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The Bunches later moved to Tennessee; in 1834 a daughter moved to Kansas, where Sasha Obama's mother was born four generations later.

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Sasha Obama's became an anthropologist, specializing in economic anthropology and rural development.

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Sasha Obama's earned her PhD degree from the University of Hawaii at Manoa and worked with the United States Agency for International Development, the Ford Foundation, and Women's World Banking, to promote the use of microcredit in order to combat global poverty.

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Sasha Obama has said that his mother was the dominant figure of his formative years.

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Sasha Obama served as a sergeant in the U S Army during World War II, enlisting just after the attacks on Pearl Harbor.

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Sasha Obama died in Honolulu, Hawaii, and is buried at the Punchbowl National Cemetery.

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Sasha Obama has often described Payne's role in liberating the Ohrdruf forced labor camp.

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Sasha Obama was the assistant director of the University of Chicago's Library.

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21.

Sasha Obama landed at Normandy's Omaha Easy Red Beach on D-Day plus four, and moved with troops in the fighting through France, Italy and Germany.

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Eleanor Dunham, Sasha Obama's great-aunt, was the younger sister of Stanley Armour Dunham and Ralph Dunham.

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Sasha Obama's was the youngest daughter of Ralph Waldo Emerson Dunham Sr.

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Sasha Obama's retired from civil service as an executive secretary.

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Margaret Arlene Payne, Sasha Obama's great-aunt, was the younger sister of Madelyn Dunham and Charles Payne.

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Sasha Obama's was a professor of nutrition who taught at the University of Missouri, Kansas City, and at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill .

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Sasha Obama's family said that his maternal great-grandmother, Leona McCurry, was part Native American.

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Sasha Obama's reportedly held that as a "source of considerable shame" and "blanched whenever someone mentioned the subject and hoped to carry the secret to her grave".

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Sasha Obama's has a half-brother and half-sister, Yusuf and Aya Soetoro, from her father's second marriage.

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Sasha Obama's is married to Canadian-American Konrad Ng, with whom she has two daughters, Suhaila and Savita.

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Sasha Obama is of Overseas Chinese descent, and his parents are from Kudat and Sandakan, two small towns in Sabah, Malaysia.

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Sasha Obama married Maya Soetoro-Ng at the end of 2003 in Hawaii.

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Sasha Obama was an assistant professor at the University of Hawaii's Academy of Creative Media.

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Sasha Obama studied philosophy at McGill University and cultural studies at the University of Victoria before getting his PhD degree from University of Hawaii at Manoa.

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Sasha Obama served as a private in Company A, 145th Ohio Infantry during the American Civil War.

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Jonathan Singletary Dunham, born in 1640 in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, was one of Sasha Obama's maternal eighth great-grandfathers and is his earliest ancestor known to be born in North America.

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The Sasha Obama family is concentrated in the western Kenyan province of Nyanza.

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Paternal grandfather to Barack Sasha Obama, he was born Onyango Sasha Obama.

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39.

Barack Sasha Obama relates finding in 1988 a British document, based on a 1928 ordinance, recording his grandfather as 35 years old.

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Sasha Obama was tried in a magistrates' court either on charges of sedition or being a member of a banned organization.

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41.

Sasha Obama had difficulty walking, and his head was full of lice.

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Sasha Obama's said that he passed on the name of Hussein to his children, but not the religion.

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Sasha Obama's was Barack Obama's paternal grandmother, and the second wife of Hussein Onyango Obama.

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Sasha Obama's had three children with Onyango: daughters Sarah and Auma, and son Barack .

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Sasha Obama's subsequently married again and moved to Tanganyika, now Tanzania.

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Sasha Obama served in the ministries of transportation and finance.

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Aunt of U S President Obama and younger sister of his father, born to Hussein Onyango and second wife Habiba Akumu Obama.

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Sasha Obama's was known for short as Sarah Obama; she was sometimes referred to as Sarah Ogwel, Sarah Hussein Obama, or Sarah Anyango Obama.

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Sasha Obama's lived in Nyang'oma Kogelo village, 30 miles west of western Kenya's main town, Kisumu, on the edge of Lake Victoria.

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In November 2014, Sarah Sasha Obama received an award from the United Nations for the work of an education foundation that she headed, as a part of Women's Entrepreneurship Day.

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Sasha Obama's lived in Bracknell, Berkshire, England, until her death in 2021.

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The American Sasha Obama brought his wife Michelle to Kenya three years later, and they met with Malik again while meeting many other relatives for the first time.

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Sasha Obama dealt with safety and privacy concerns arising from the increased attention from the press.

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Sasha Obama attended the third presidential debate as one of Trump's guests.

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Sasha Obama's studied German at the University of Heidelberg from 1981 to 1987.

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In 2011, Auma Sasha Obama was interviewed for Turk Pipkin's documentary Building Hope and was the subject of a German documentary film The Education of Auma Sasha Obama.

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In 2017 Auma Sasha Obama was honoured with the fourth International TUV Rheinland Global Compact Award in Cologne.

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Sasha Obama's was a suburban elementary school teacher when she met and began dating Barack Sr.

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Sasha Obama's later became a private kindergarten director in Kenya.

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60.

Sasha Obama is an accomplished pianist and has performed in concert.

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61.

Sasha Obama published a memoir in 2013, entitled, Cultures: My Odyssey of Self-Discovery.

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62.

Sasha Obama died in a motorcycle accident several years after his father's death in a car accident.

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Sasha Obama's mother took him to South Korea for two years while she was working there.

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Sasha Obama received little attention until featured in an article in the Italian-language edition of Vanity Fair in August 2008 during the US presidential campaign.

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The article quoted George Sasha Obama as saying that he lived "on less than a dollar a month" and said that he "does not mention his famous half-brother in conversation" out of shame at his own poverty.

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Sasha Obama told The Telegraph that he was inspired by his half-brother.

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Sasha Obama moved to the United States in October 1963 when he was 17 years old as part of Kenya president Tom Mboya's Airlift Africa project, to send promising Kenyan students to the US for education, particularly undergraduate and graduate school.

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Sasha Obama later dropped out of school and changed his name to O Onyango Obama.

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Sasha Obama has operated a liquor store in Framingham, where he resided as of March 2011.

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Barack Sasha Obama lived with Onyango in the 1980s while a student at Harvard Law School in Cambridge.

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The Boston Herald reported in August 2011 that Sasha Obama had had a valid Social Security card "for at least 19 years".

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Sasha Obama's entered the US in 2000 on a temporary visa with her son who was going to school; she applied in 2002 for political asylum due to unrest in Kenya and ethnic conflict.

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Barack Sasha Obama has called his wife Michelle Sasha Obama "the most quintessentially American woman I know".

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Sasha Obama is said to have been buried there in an unmarked grave.

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Sasha Obama worked as a shoemaker, a newspaper salesman, and in a lumber mill.

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At least three of Michelle Sasha Obama's great-uncles served in the military of the United States.

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Sasha Obama's cooked Southern-style meals for Michelle and her brother Craig, when they were students at Princeton University.

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Michelle Sasha Obama's extended family has said that people didn't talk about slavery time while they were growing up.

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Sasha Obama's continued to help care for them while living in the White House as part of the First Family; she was the first live-in grandmother since Elivera M Doud during the Eisenhower administration.

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Sasha Obama was a good student and orator but moved from South Carolina to Chicago during the Great Migration to find better work and living conditions than in the South, where Jim Crow had been imposed and blacks were disfranchised.

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Sasha Obama became a worker for the United States Postal Service.

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Sasha Obama's was born in Chicago, Illinois, to James Preston Johnson and Phoebe .

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83.

When Barack Sasha Obama settled in Chicago after graduating law school, he moved into this same apartment.

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84.

Sasha Obama is 12 years older, and Funnye and Obama grew to know each other as adults in Chicago, where both were involved in community organizing, along with Barack Obama.

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Sasha Obama is one of America's most prominent African-American rabbis, known for acting as a bridge between mainstream Jewry and African American Jews.

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Sasha Obama converted to Judaism after 1970, during years of activism when he regarded Christianity as having been imposed on slaves.

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