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  1. Fraser Robinson Jr. (1912–1996) Michelle Obama's paternal grandfather was born on August 24, 1912, in Georgetown, South Carolina , and died on November 9, 1996, aged 84. He 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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      Shields married Fraser Robinson III on October 27, 1960, in...

  2. Aug 1, 2021 · Michelle Robinson was born on January 17, 1964, in Chicago, IL to Marian, a secretary-turned-stay-at-home-mom, and Fraser, a city worker who also doubled as a Democratic precinct captain, according to Biography. She had one younger brother and grew up in a close-knit family, but she lost her father the year before she wed the man who would become the nation's first African-American president.

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  3. Shields married Fraser Robinson III on October 27, 1960, in Chicago. They had two children together, Craig Malcolm and Michelle LaVaughn, named after Fraser's mother. Fraser died from multiple sclerosis in 1991. Robinson worked as a secretary for mail-order retailer Spiegel, the University of Chicago, and a bank.

  4. May 31, 2024 · She married Fraser Robinson III, a pump operator for Chicago's water department, in 1960, and they had two children - Craig in 1962 and Michelle two years later. Robinson worked as a secretary and ...

  5. Fraser C. Robinson III was born 1 August 1935 in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, United States to Fraser Robinson, Jr. (1912-1996) and LaVaughn Delores Johnson (1915-2002) and died 6 March 1991 Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, United States of unspecified causes. He married Marian Lois Shields (1937) 27 October 1960 in Cook County, Illinois, United States.

  6. Michelle LaVaughn Robinson was born on January 17, 1964, in Chicago, Illinois, to Fraser Robinson III (1935–1991), a city water plant employee and Democratic precinct captain, and Marian Shields Robinson (1937–2024), a secretary at Spiegel's catalog store. Her mother was a full-time homemaker until Michelle entered high school.

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  8. Dec 6, 2018 · Her father, Fraser Robinson III, worked for the city tending boilers for a water filtration plant, and her mother, Marian Shields Robinson, stayed at home looking after Michelle and her older ...

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