Jeff Dunham
Dunham was born in Dallas, Texas on April 18, 1962. When he was three months old, he was adopted by real estate appraiser Howard Dunham, and his homemaker wife Joyce, who raised him in a devoutly Presbyterian household in an affluent Dallas neighborhood, as an only child.
Josiah Dunham
Josiah Dunham was born in Columbia, Connecticut on April 7, 1769. His father was Daniel Dunham, and his mother was Ann Moseley. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1789, and his classmates included Martin Chittenden, who later served as Governor of Vermont. He resided in Hanover, New Hampshire, and became publisher of the "Dartmouth Sentinel" newspaper and served as preceptor of Moor's Charity School, an educational facility that was affiliated with Dartmouth College.