Barack Obama's Caucasian Heritage


                     /Jacob William Dunham b: 7 Feb 1863 d: 13 Aug 1936
             /Ralph Waldo Emerson Dunham b: 25 Dec 1894 d: 4 Oct 1970
             |       \Mary Ann Kearney b: 19 Sep 1869 d: 13 Aug 1936
     /Stanley Armour Dunham b: 23 Mar 1918 d: 8 Feb 1992
     |       |       /Harry Ellington Armour b: Jan 1874
     |       \Ruth Lucille Armour b: 1 Sep 1900 d: 25 Nov 1926
     |               |       /Christopher Columbus Clark b: 1846 d: aft 1920
     |               \Gabriella Clark b: Jun 1877
     |                       |               /Robert Overall
     |                       |       /George Washington Overall
     |                       |       |       \Annie Browning =>
     |                       \Susan C. Overall b: 1849 d: bef 1920
     |                               |       /Gabriel Duvall b: 3 Oct 1787 d: 1 Aug 1827 =>
     |                               \Louisiana Duvall b: 26 Mar 1826 d: 18 Dec 1855
     |                                       \Mary Grable b: 13 Oct 1791 d: 6 Aug 1868
Ann Dunham b: 29 Nov 1942 d: 7 Nov 1995
     |                               /Salmon Payne b: abt 1796 d: aft 1850
     |                       /Benjamin Payne b: 30 Apr 1839 d: 15 Apr 1878
     |                       |       \Elizabeth Lnu b: abt 1806 d: aft 1850
     |               /Charles T. Payne b: Jun 1861
     |               |       \Eliza Black b: 3 Apr 1837 d: 1921
     |       /Rolla Charles Payne b: 23 Aug 1892 d: Oct 1968
     |       |       \Della ? b: May 1863
     \Madelyn Lee Payne b: abt 1922
             \Leona McCurry b: abt May 1897


Obama is sworn into the Senate by his eighth cousin, Vice President Cheney. Mrs. Cheney's spokeswoman Ginny Justice gave CNN's Ed Henry more details, saying the two unlikely relatives are related through a French Huguenot named Mareen Duvall. Cheney and Obama are both descendants of her.

According to Justice, the vice president is related to her through "the first" Richard Cheney, who came to America in the 1650's. His granddaughter married Samuel Duvall, son of Mareen Duvall.

Obama is related to Cheney through Mareen Duvall, a 17th century immigrant from France.

Mareen and Susannah Duvall were Obama's great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandparents and Cheney's great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandparents. 


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