List of United States Political Families (D) - The Dunhams

The Dunhams

• Deacon John Dunham (1588/89-1668/1669), Deputy of the General Court of the Plymouth Colony.
• Jonathan Singletary Dunham (17 January 1640 – 6 September 1724), Member of the New Jersey Provincial Congress, President Barack Obama’s eighth great-grandfather.and the first of Obama’s ancestors to be born in North America.
• Cyrus Livingston Dunham (16 January 1817 – 21 November 1877), American Civil War Union Colonel, U.S. Representative from Indiana during the Thirty-first, Thirty-second, and Thirty-third Congresses (4 March 1849 – 3 March 1855).

• Jeremiah Dunham Botkin (24 April 1849 – 29 December 1921), Methodist Minister and U.S. Representative from Kansas during the Fifty-fifth Congress (4 March 1897 – 3 March 1899).
• William Riley Dunham, Member of the Indiana General House of Assembly, representing Hamilton and Tipton County, Indiana from 1913–1915.