Michelle Obama Obama has said that the two had an "opposites attract" scenario in their initial interest in each other, since Michelle had stability from her two-parent home while he was "adventurous". They married on October 3, 1992. After suffering a miscarriage, Michelle underwent in vitro fertilisation to conceive their daughters Malia Ann (born 1998) and Natasha (known as Sasha, born 2001). The Obama family lived on Chicago's South Side, where Barack taught at the University of Chicago Law School. He was elected to the state senate in 1996, and to the US Senate in 2004. They chose to keep their residence
Daughters of the Republic of Texas on the history of Texas. Membership is limited to descendants of ancestors who "rendered loyal service for Texas" prior to February 19, 1846, the date the Republic ceased to exist and Texas handed over authority to the United States. The Daughters of the Republic of Texas was formed in 1891 by cousins Betty Eve Ballinger (1854–1936) and Hally Ballinger Bryan Perry (1868–1955). The organization was originally called the Daughters of the Lone Star Republic before taking its present name. The first president of the organization in 1891 was Mary Smith Jones, widow of the Republic's last president Anson Jones. The