2021年8月1日 · Michelle Obama was able to introduce her father, Fraser Robinson III, to her future husband, as they began dating in 1989 when he was still with her. In 2018, Michelle Obama published her memoir, "Becoming," and wrote that he didn't think her new relationship would last because none of her others had.

2024年6月3日 · Michelle Obama's parents, Fraser and Marian Robinson, married in 1960 and raised the former first lady and her brother, Craig, in Chicago’s South Side, not far from where they each grew up.

2025年2月5日 · Fraser C. Robinson III, Michelle Obama's father, born August 1, 1935, died March 6, 1991, married Michelle's mother, Marian Shields, on October 27, 1960.[205][210] Robinson was a pump worker at the City of Chicago water plant.

2024年1月28日 · Fraser Robinson III was a remarkable man who lived a life of courage and dignity in spite of his MS. He was a loving father who shaped the character and values of one of the most influential women in the world. His story deserves to be told and celebrated.

2020年4月7日 · As Today revealed, Fraser Robinson III was just 55 years old when he died in 1991. Obama shared with the publication that she saw a different side to her father during their family vacations to a holiday resort in Michigan.

2019年6月14日 · Michelle Obama shared a photo of herself as a young girl in a favorite family vacation spot as she remembered her late father, Fraser Robinson III, ahead of Father's Day.

2024年5月31日 · Like his wife, Fraser Robinson III also grew up on the South Side of Chicago. He was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis at the age of 30. Despite living with the autoimmune disease, he continued to show up to his job at a water filtration plant almost every day, according to Life In Spite of MS.

2020年4月17日 · Her mother, the Marian Robinson (formerly Shields) had wanted to be a teacher but became a secretary instead. Her father, Fraser Robinson III, ran out of money to pay tuition at community college and joined the Army, using his salary to pay for his younger brother's architecture degree (via Today).

2008年11月8日 · Fraser Robinson III was not famous in life, but he shares a bit of the lime light being Michelle Obama's dad who also had multiple sclerosis.

2020年5月6日 · Fraser Robinson. Jr. was Michelle Obama’s paternal grandfather. He was born to Fraser Robinson Sr., the son of Jim Robinson, an 1850 slave at Friendfield Plantation outside Georgetown.