Sheila Miyoshi Jager

Sheila Miyoshi Jager (born 1963) is an American historian. She is a Professor of East Asian Studies at Oberlin College. She is the author of two books on Korea and the co-editor of a third book on Asian nations in the post-Cold War era.  She is known for her relationship with Barack Obama before his marriage with Michelle Obama.

In the 1980s, Jager lived with Barack Obama, then a community organizer in Chicago. In 1986, Obama asked her parents if he could marry her, but they rejected. Shortly after he entered the Harvard Law School, Obama proposed to Jager a second time, but she rejected him.

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