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Caroline Bouvier Kennedy
b.27 Nov 1957
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m. 12 Sep 1953
  1. Caroline Bouvier Kennedy1957 -
  2. John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Jr.1960 - 1999
  3. Patrick Bouvier Kennedy1963 - 1963
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Name Caroline Bouvier Kennedy
Gender Female
Birth[1] 27 Nov 1957
Death[1] Famous Living Person Exception?
Reference Number? Q230303?


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Caroline Bouvier Kennedy[1][2] (born November 27, 1957)[3] is an American author, attorney, and diplomat who served as the United States ambassador to Japan from 2013 to 2017 and is currently serving as the United States ambassador to Australia. Kennedy is the only surviving child of former U.S. president John F. Kennedy and former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy. She is a prominent member of the Kennedy family.

Her father John F. Kennedy, then a U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, won the 1960 presidential election when she was two years old. Spending her early childhood years in the White House during the Kennedy Administration, Caroline was almost six when her father was assassinated on November 22, 1963. The following year, Jacqueline Kennedy and her children, Caroline and John Jr., moved to the Upper East Side of Manhattan, where Caroline attended grade school.

Kennedy graduated from Harvard University and worked at Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she met her future husband, exhibit designer Edwin Schlossberg. She later earned a J.D. degree from Columbia Law School. Most of Kennedy's professional life has been in law, politics, education reform, and charitable work. She has also acted as a spokesperson for her family's legacy, especially that of her father, and had co-authored two books with Ellen Alderman on civil liberties.

Early in the primary race for the 2008 presidential election, Kennedy and her uncle, Ted Kennedy, endorsed Democratic candidate Barack Obama. She later stumped for him in Florida, Indiana, and Ohio, served as co-chair of his Vice Presidential Search Committee, and addressed the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver.

After Obama selected United States senator Hillary Clinton to serve as secretary of state, Kennedy expressed interest in being appointed to Clinton's vacant Senate seat from New York, but later withdrew from consideration for personal reasons. In 2013, President Obama appointed Kennedy as the United States ambassador to Japan. In 2021, President Biden appointed Kennedy to be the next United States ambassador to Australia and she took office following her confirmation on June 10, 2022. She presented her credentials to Governor-General David Hurley on July 25, 2022.

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  1. 1.0 1.1 Caroline Kennedy, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.