WeArSoFkd FACT#3: The Dunham and Geithner Familial Connections
By SusanUnPC on March 17, 2009 at 8:28 PM in Barack Obama, Barry Soetoro, Tim Geithner
From the Wikipedia biography of one Timothy F. Geithner, Secretary of the Treasury, Administration of Barack H. Obama, 2009- :
Early life and education
Geithner’s paternal grandfather, Paul Herman Geithner (1902–1972), emigrated with his parents from the German town of Zeulenroda to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1908.[1] His father, Peter F. Geithner, is the director of the Asia program at the Ford Foundation in New York. During the early 1980s, Peter Geithner oversaw the Ford Foundation’s microfinance programs in Indonesia being developed by Ann Dunham-Soetoro, President Barack Obama’s mother, and they met in person at least once.[2] Timothy Geithner’s mother, Deborah Moore Geithner, is a pianist and piano teacher in Larchmont, New York where his parents currently reside. Geithner’s maternal grandfather, Charles F. Moore, was an adviser to President Dwight D. Eisenhower and served as a vice president of Ford Motor Company.[3] Geithner was born in Brooklyn, New York.[4] He spent most of his childhood living outside the United States, including present-day Zimbabwe, India and Thailand, where he completed high school at International School Bangkok.[5] He then attended Dartmouth College, graduating with an A.B. in government and Asian studies in 1983.[6] He earned an M.A. in international economics and East Asian studies from Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies in 1985.[6][7] He has studied Chinese[6] and Japanese.[8]
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