| Michelle LaVaughn Robinson ‡ | ||
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| Birth | January 17, 1964 in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois "Chicago, Illinois" | |
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| Father: | Fraser C. Robinson III (1935-1991) | |
| Mother: | Marian L. Shields (1937) | |
| Husband: | Barack Obama (1961) | |
| Wedding: | 1992 in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois "Trinity United Church of ChristChicago, Illinois" | |
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Michelle LaVaughn Robinson was born 17 January 1964 in City of Chicago, Cook County, Illinois to Fraser C. Robinson III (1935-1991) and Marian L. Shields (1937) and is now 46 years of age. Michelle LaVaughn married Barack Obama 1992 in City of Chicago, Cook County, Illinois.
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Michelle LaVaughn Robinson is the daughter of Fraser C. Robinson and Marian L. Shields. She supported her husband's successful 2008 Presidential campaign and became First Lady of the United States on his inauguration on 20 January 2009.
| Offspring of Michelle LaVaughn Robinson and Barack Obama (1961) | ||
| Name | Birth | Death |
| Malia Obama (1999) | 1998 in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois "Chicago, Illinois" | |
| Sasha Obama (2001) | ||
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Michelle Robinson's family is of African American heritage, descendants of Africans of the American Colonial Era. Michelle Obama's family history traces from slavery to Reconstruction to the Great Migration North. Some of Michelle's relatives still reside in South Carolina.
Michelle's oldest known relative is Jim Robinson, an American slave who was born in the 1800s and lived at least until the American Civil War.[1] At least three of Michelle Obama's great-uncles served honorably in the military of the United States. One aunt moved to Princeton, New Jersey, where she worked as a maid, and cooked Southern-style meals for Michelle and her brother, Craig, when they were students at Princeton University.
Barack Obama has called Michelle "the most quintessentially American woman I know."[1]
Michelle's earliest known relative is her great-great grandfather Jim Robinson, born in the 1850s, who was an American slave on the Friendfield plantation in South Carolina. The family believes that after the Civil War he remained a Friendfield plantation sharecropper for the rest of his life and that he was buried there in an unmarked grave.[1]
Jim had two sons:
Jim Robinson's son
Gabriel Robinson's daughter, born about 1928, is the oldest living Robinson and the keeper of family lore.[1]
Michelle Obama's great-grandfather was born on March 24, 1884. Fraser had an arm amputated as a result of a boyhood injury. He worked as a shoemaker, as a newspaper salesman and in a lumber mill and was married to Rosella Cohen.[1]
Fraser Robinson, Jr. (1912-1996), Michelle Obama's grandfather, was a standout student and was known as an orator. Moved from South Carolina to Chicago hoping to find better work than what he could find at home. However, all that was available to him was to be a postal worker. He was married to LaVaughn Johnson. When he retired, they moved back to South Carolina.[1]
Fraser C. Robinson III (1935-1991) Michelle Obama's father. Pump worker at the City of Chicago water plant[1]
Marian L. Shields (1937) Michelle Obama's mother. Secretary at Spiegel catalog.
(born 1962) Barack Obama, Jr.'s brother-in-law. Head coach of men's basketball at Oregon State University[2]
One of America's most prominent African American Jews. Michelle Obama and Rabbi Capers Funnye, spiritual leader of a mostly black synagogue on Chicago’s South Side, are first cousins once removed. Funnye’s mother, Verdelle Robinson Funnye (born Verdelle Robinson) and Michelle Obama’s paternal grandfather, Fraser Robinson Jr., were siblings.[3] He is well-known in Jewish circles for acting as a bridge between mainstream Jewry and African Americans.[3]
| Fraser Robinson III — Illinois[1] (1935-1991)  Waterplant pump operator in Illinois |
Marian Shields — (born 1937) Secretaryat Spiegel Catalog in Illinois |
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| Craig Robinson — Illinois (born 1962) Basketballcoach in Oregon |
Michelle Robinson — Illinois (born 1964) (Wife ofBarack Obama) |
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