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Caroline Kennedy
United States Ambassador to Japan
Incumbent
Assumed office October 16, 2013
President	Barack Obama
Preceded by	John Roos
Personal details
Born	Caroline Bouvier Kennedy (1957-11-27) November 27, 1957 (age 67) New York City, New York, U.S.
Political party	Democratic
Spouse	Edwin Schlossberg (1986–present)
Children	Rose Tatiana John
Alma mater	Harvard University Columbia University

Caroline Bouvier Kennedy (born November 27, 1957) is an American author, attorney and Ambassador to Japan. She is a member of the influential Kennedy family and the only living child of U.S. President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy.

At the time of her father's presidency, she was a young child; after his assassination in 1963, her family settled in the Upper East Side of Manhattan, where she attended school. Kennedy graduated from Radcliffe College and worked at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she met her future husband, exhibit designer Edwin Schlossberg. She went on to receive a J.D. degree from Columbia Law School. Kennedy's professional life has spanned law and politics as well as education and charitable work. She has also acted as a spokesperson for her family's legacy and co-authored two books on civil liberties with Ellen Alderman.

In the 2008 presidential election, Kennedy endorsed Democratic candidate Barack Obama for President early in the primary race; she later stumped for him in Orlando, Indiana, and Ohio, served as co-chair of his Vice Presidential Search Committee, and addressed the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver. After Obama's selection of then-Senator Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State, Kennedy expressed interest in being appointed to Clinton's vacant Senate seat from New York, but she later withdrew from consideration, citing "personal reasons".

Early life and childhood

Caroline Kennedy was born at Cornell Medical Center in New York City, a year after her parents had a stillborn daughter named Arabella. Caroline was named after her maternal aunt, Caroline Lee Bouvier Radziwill, and her maternal great-grandmother, Caroline Ewing Bouvier. Her younger brother, John, Jr., was born three years after her. A second brother, Patrick, died of a lung ailment two days after his premature birth in 1963. Caroline and John, Jr. lived with their parents in the Washington, D.C. neighborhood of Georgetown. When Caroline was only three years old, her father was sworn in as President of the United States and the family later moved into the White House. Caroline attended kindergarten in classes organized by her mother, Jackie, and was often photographed riding her pony Macaroni around the White House grounds. A photo of a young Caroline with Macaroni in a news article inspired singer-songwriter Neil Diamond to write his hit song "Sweet Caroline", a fact he revealed only when performing it for her 50th birthday in November 2007. As a small child in the White House, she was the recipient of numerous gifts from dignitaries, including a puppy from Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev and a Yucatán pony from Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson. Historians described Caroline's personality as a child as "a trifle remote and a bit shy at times" yet "remarkably unspoiled." "She's too young to realize all these luxuries", her paternal grandmother, Rose Kennedy, said of her, "She probably thinks it's natural for children to go off in their own airplanes. But she is with her cousins, and some of them dance and swim better than she. They do not allow her to take special precedence. Little children accept things."

On the day of their father's assassination on November 22, 1963, nanny Maud Shaw took Caroline and John, Jr., away from the White House to the home of their maternal grandmother, Janet Auchincloss, who insisted that Shaw be the one to tell Caroline about her father's assassination. That evening, Caroline and John, Jr., were brought back to the White House, and with Caroline in bed, Shaw broke the news to her. However, Johnson had already written letters to Caroline and John, Jr. by telling them about the assassination and that they could "always be proud" of their father. Shaw subsequently found out that their mother had wanted to be the one to tell the children, which caused a rift between the nanny and Mrs. Kennedy. In December 1963, Jackie, Caroline, and John, Jr. moved from the White House back to Georgetown. However, their home soon became a popular tourist attraction in Washington and they moved to a penthouse apartment on Fifth Avenue on the Upper East Side of Manhattan the following year.

In 1967, Kennedy christened the United States Navy aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy in a widely publicized ceremony in Newport News, Virginia. In 1975, Kennedy was visiting London to complete a nine-month art course at the Sotheby's auction house. On October 23, a car bomb placed by the IRA under the car of her hosts, Conservative MP Sir Hugh Fraser and his wife, the writer Lady Antonia Fraser, exploded shortly before Kennedy and the Frasers were due to leave for their daily drive to Sotheby's. Caroline was running late and had not yet left the house, but a passerby, oncologist Professor Gordon Hamilton-Fairley, was killed. Hamilton-Fairley, a neighbour of the Frasers, had been walking his dog, when he noticed something amiss and stopped to examine the bomb.

Education and personal life

Kennedy attended The Brearley School and Convent of the Sacred Heart in New York City and, in 1975, graduated from Concord Academy in Massachusetts. In 1980, she received her Bachelor of Arts from Radcliffe College at Harvard University. In 1988, she received a Juris Doctor from Columbia Law School, graduating in the top ten percent of her class. During college, Kennedy "considered becoming a photojournalist, but soon realized she could never make her living observing other people because they were too busy watching her." At the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria, she was a Photographer's Assistant. In 1977, she became a summer intern at the New York Daily News, earning $156 a week, "fetching coffee for harried editors and reporters, changing typewriter ribbons and delivering messages." Kennedy reportedly "sat on a bench alone for two hours the first day before other employees even said hello to her"; and, according to Richard Licata, a former News reporter, "Everyone was too scared."

In addition, Kennedy wrote for Rolling Stone about visiting Graceland shortly after the death of Elvis Presley. After graduating from college in 1980, Kennedy was hired as a Research Assistant in the Film and Television Department of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. She later became a "liaison officer between the museum staff and outside producers and directors shooting footage at the museum", helping coordinate the Sesame Street special Don't Eat the Pictures. While at her museum job, Kennedy met her future husband and exhibit designer, Edwin Schlossberg, with whom she married on July 19, 1986 at Our Lady of Victory Church in Centerville, Massachusetts. Kennedy's matron of honor was her cousin, Maria Shriver; her paternal uncle, Edward M. "Ted" Kennedy, walked her down the aisle. Although Kennedy is often incorrectly referred to as "Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg", she did not change her name at the time she married. Kennedy has three children: Rose, Tatiana, and John, and owns her mother's 375-acre (1.52 km) estate known as Red Gate Farm in Aquinnah (formerly Gay Head) on Martha's Vineyard. The New York Daily News estimated Kennedy's net worth in 2008 at over $100 million. During her nomination as ambassador to Japan in 2013, financial-disclosure reports showed her net worth to be between $67 million and $278 million, including family trusts, government and public authority bonds, commercial property in New York, Chicago and Washington, and holdings in the Cayman Islands.

Living in New York City and somewhat apart from their Hyannisport cousins, Caroline and John, Jr. were very close, especially following their mother's death in 1994. John, Jr. later died in a plane crash in 1999, leaving Caroline the sole survivor of the former President's immediate family.

Public career: 1989 – present

Kennedy is an attorney, writer, and editor and serves on the boards of numerous non-profit organizations. From 2002 through 2004, she worked as director of the Office of Strategic Partnerships for the New York City Department of Education. The three-day-a-week job paid her a salary of $1 and had the goal of raising private money for the New York City public schools. In that capacity, she helped raise more than $65 million for the city's public schools. She currently serves as one of two vice chairs of the board of directors of The Fund for Public Schools, a public-private partnership founded in 2002 to attract private funding for public schools in New York City. She has also served on the board of trustees of Concord Academy, which she attended as a child.

Kennedy and other members of her family created the Profile in Courage Award in 1989. The award is given to a public official or officials whose actions demonstrate politically courageous leadership in the spirit of John F. Kennedy's book, Profiles in Courage. She is also president of the Kennedy Library Foundation and an adviser to the Harvard Institute of Politics, a living memorial to her father. Kennedy is a member of the New York and Washington, D.C., bar associations. She is also a member of the boards of directors of the Commission on Presidential Debates and the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, and is an honorary chair of the American Ballet Theatre. Kennedy has represented her family at the funeral services of former presidents Ronald Reagan and Gerald Ford and former First Lady Lady Bird Johnson. She also represented her family at the dedication of the Bill Clinton Presidential Center and Park in Little Rock, Arkansas in November 2004.

2008 Presidential election

On January 27, 2008, Kennedy announced in a New York Times op-ed piece entitled, "A President Like My Father," that she would endorse Barack Obama in the 2008 U.S. presidential election. Her concluding lines were: "I have never had a president who inspired me the way people tell me that my father inspired them. But for the first time, I believe I have found the man who could be that president—not just for me, but for a new generation of Americans." The only other presidential candidate she had ever endorsed was her uncle, Ted Kennedy (in 1980).

Federal Election Commission records show that Kennedy contributed $2,300 to the Hillary Rodham Clinton presidential campaign committee on June 29, 2007. She previously contributed a total of $5,000 to Clinton's 2006 senatorial campaign. On September 18, 2007, she contributed $2,300 to Barack Obama's presidential campaign committee.

On June 4, 2008, Obama named Kennedy, along with Jim Johnson and Eric Holder, to co-chair his Vice Presidential Search Committee. (Johnson withdrew one week later.)

Filmmaker Michael Moore called on Kennedy to "Pull a Cheney", and name herself as Obama's vice presidential running mate (Dick Cheney headed George W. Bush's vice presidential vetting committee in 2000—Cheney himself was chosen for the job). On August 23, Obama announced that Senator Joe Biden of Delaware would be his running mate. Kennedy addressed the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver, introducing a tribute film about her uncle, Senator Ted Kennedy.

United States Senate seat

In December 2008, Kennedy announced her interest in the United States Senate seat occupied by Hillary Clinton, who had been selected to become Secretary of State. This seat was to be filled through 2010 by appointment of New York Governor David Paterson. This same seat was held by Kennedy's uncle Robert F. Kennedy from January 1965 until his assassination in June 1968, when he was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination. Kennedy's appointment was supported by Congresswoman Louise Slaughter, State Assemblyman Vito Lopez, New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg, former New York City Mayor Ed Koch, and the New York Post editorial page.

She received criticism for not voting in a number of Democratic primaries and general elections since registering in 1988 in New York City and for not providing details about her political views. Kennedy declined to make disclosures of her financial dealings or other personal matters to the press, stating that she would not release the information publicly unless she were selected by Governor Paterson. She did complete a confidential 28-page disclosure questionnaire required of hopefuls, reported to include extensive financial information.

In an interview with the Associated Press, Kennedy acknowledged that she would need to prove herself. "Going into politics is something people have asked me about forever", Kennedy said. "When this opportunity came along, which was sort of unexpected, I thought, 'Well, maybe now. How about now?' " " work twice as hard as anybody else...I am an unconventional choice...We're starting to see there are many ways into public life and public service." In late December 2008, Kennedy drew criticism from several media outlets for lacking clarity in interviews, and for using the phrase "you know" 168 times during a 30-minute interview with NY1.

Shortly before midnight on January 22, 2009, Kennedy released a statement withdrawing from consideration for the seat, citing "personal reasons". Published reports that "a definite tax issue" and "a nanny problem" were the reasons for Kennedy's withdrawal turned out to be inaccurate and leaked by aides to Gov. Paterson. Kennedy declined to expand upon the reasons that led to her decision to withdraw. One day after Kennedy's withdrawal, Paterson announced his selection of Representative Kirsten Gillibrand to fill the Senate seat.

2012 Presidential election

Caroline Kennedy was among the 35 national co-chairs of Obama's 2012 re-election campaign.

On June 27, 2012, Kennedy made appearances in Nashua and Manchester, New Hampshire, to campaign for the re-election of President Obama.

United States Ambassador to Japan nomination

On July 24, 2013, President Barack Obama announced Kennedy as his nominee to be Ambassador to Japan, to succeed current Ambassador John Roos. The prospective nomination was first reported in February 2013 and, in mid-July 2013, formal diplomatic agreement was reportedly received from the Japanese government.

On September 19, 2013, Kennedy sat before the the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and responded to questions from both Republican and Democrat senators in relation to her potential appointment as the US ambassador to Japan. Kennedy explained that her focus would be military ties, trade, and student exchange if she was selected for the position.

On October 16, 2013, the U.S. Senate confirmed Kennedy by unanimous consent to be Ambassador. She is the first female American ambassador to Japan.

Political views

Through a spokeswoman, Kennedy has said that she supports legislation legalizing same-sex marriage, is pro-choice, is a strong supporter of gun control, opposes the death penalty, and favors restoring the Federal Assault Weapons Ban, which expired in 2004. She believes the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) should be looked at again, supports the federal bailout of American automakers, and says she "opposed the Iraq War from the beginning."

Kennedy has stated that she believes that Jerusalem should be the undivided capital city of Israel. She has also stated that "Israel's security decisions should be left to Israel." With regard to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, Kennedy has stated that she "supports a two-state peace solution for Israel, so long as there is a true partner for peace in the Palestinians, and so long as Israel's security is assured."

Works published

Kennedy and Ellen Alderman have written two books together on civil liberties:

• In Our Defense: The Bill of Rights In Action (1991)
• The Right to Privacy (1995)

On her own, she has edited these New York Times best-selling volumes:

• The Best-Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (2001);
• Profiles in Courage for Our Time (2002);
• A Patriot's Handbook (2003);
• A Family of Poems: My Favorite Poetry for Children (2005).

She is also the author of A Family Christmas, a collection of poems, prose, and personal notes from her family history (2007, ISBN 978-1-4013-2227-4). In April 2011, a new collection of poetry, She Walks In Beauty – A Woman's Journey Through Poems, edited and introduced by Caroline Kennedy, was published. She launched the book at the John F Kennedy Library & Museum at Columbia Point, South Boston.

Notes

1. Gross, Michael (July 8, 1986). "Caroline Kennedy's fiance respected as innovator". Star-News.
2. ^ Sachs, Andrea (May 13, 2002). "10 Questions for Caroline Kennedy". Time. Retrieved December 16, 2008.
3. ^ "Transcript: Larry King Interview with Caroline Kennedy". Larry King Live. CNN. May 7, 2002. Retrieved December 16, 2008.
4. ^ "Caroline Kennedy, President". John F. Kennedy Library Foundation. Cite error: The named reference "JFKLibrary_profile" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
5. Gary Ginsberg on her campaigning for Obama; cited in MacFarquhar, Larissa (April 18, 2009). "The Kennedy Who Couldn't". The Age: Good Weekend supplement (pp. 12–16).
6. "Neil Diamond: Caroline Kennedy Inspired 'Sweet Caroline'". Fox News. November 20, 2007. Retrieved December 19, 2008.
7. "Caroline Kennedy Shares White House with a Menagerie" (paid archive). The New York Times. June 26, 1961. p. 33. Retrieved December 19, 2008.
8. Heymann, p. 66.
9. "People". Time. August 3, 1962. Retrieved December 19, 2008.
10. Miller, Merle (1980). Lyndon: An Oral Biography. New York: Putnam. pp. 323–324.
11. Heymann, pp. 110–114.
12. "John F. Kennedy CVA-67". Retrieved December 19, 2008.
13. Weinraub, Bernard (October 24, 1975). "Bomb Kills a Doctor Near London Home of Caroline Kennedy; A Narrow Escape for Miss Kennedy" (paid archive). The New York Times. p. 1. Retrieved December 5, 2008.
14. Heymann, p. 203.
15. "UPI photo archives 1980". UPI. June 5, 1980. Retrieved August 3, 2012.
16. Heymann, p. 299.
17. ^ Mitchell, Greg (December 13, 2008). "Caroline Kennedy's Journalism Days – And Meeting Elvis". Editor & Publisher. Retrieved October 28, 2011.
18. Andersen, p. 219.
19. Heymann, p. 264.
20. "Caroline Bouvier Kennedy to wed Edwin Schlossberg". The New York Times. March 2, 1986. Retrieved June 21, 2007. The engagement of Caroline Bouvier Kennedy and Edwin Arthur Schlossberg has been announced by her mother, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis of New York. A summer wedding is planned.
21. Mcfadden, Robert D. (May 20, 1994). "Death of a First Lady; Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Dies of Cancer at 64". The New York Times. p. 1. Retrieved December 12, 2012.
22. Saul, Michael (December 24, 2008). "Caroline Kennedy: The $100M Woman". Daily News. Retrieved December 24, 2008.
23. Salant, Jonathan D. (August 20, 2013). "Caroline Kennedy Worth Up to $278 Million, Records Show". Bloomberg News. Retrieved August 20, 2013.
24. Anderson 2004, p. 11.
25. Anderson 2004, p. 4.
26. Halbfinger, David W. (December 15, 2008). "Résumé Long on Politics, but Short on Public Office". The New York Times. Retrieved December 16, 2008.
27. Herszenhorn, David M. (August 20, 2004). "Caroline Kennedy Is Leaving Fund-Raising Job for Schools". The New York Times. Retrieved December 16, 2008.
28. "Board of Directors". Fund for Public Schools. Retrieved December 17, 2008.
29. Heymann, p. 203.
30. ^ "Profile in Courage Award". John F. Kennedy Library Foundation. Retrieved December 17, 2008. Cite error: The named reference "ProfinCourage-define" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
31. Kennedy, Caroline (January 27, 2008). "A President Like My Father" (Op-Ed). The New York Times. Retrieved January 27, 2008.
32. "Caroline Kennedy Endorses Obama; President Kennedy's Daughter Calls Illinois Senator 'A President Like My Father'". KCBS-TV. Associated Press. January 26, 2008. Retrieved December 17, 2008.
33. Pickler, Nedra (June 4, 2008). "Obama Names a Kennedy to Help Pick Veep". Breitbart.com. Associated Press. Retrieved December 6, 2008.
34. "Federal Election Commission Finance Reports Transaction Query by Individual Contributor" (enter Kennedy Caroline for search). Federal Election Commission. Retrieved February 2, 2008.
35. Murray, Mark (June 4, 2008). "Obama Taps 3 to Lead Veep Committee". First Read. MSNBC. Retrieved December 17, 2008.
36. Moore, Michael (August 19, 2008). "'Caroline: Pull a Cheney!' An Open Letter to Caroline Kennedy (head of the Obama VP search team) from Michael Moore". michaelmoore.com. Retrieved December 17, 2008.
37. Bruni, Frank (June 26, 2000). "The 2000 Campaign: The Texas Governor; Bush Names Cheney, Citing 'Integrity' and 'Experience'" (paid archive). The New York Times. Retrieved January 22, 2009.
38. "Scorecard: First-Night Speeches, Caroline Kennedy". Time. August 26, 2008. Retrieved December 19, 2008.
39. Confessore, Nicholas (December 15, 2008). "Caroline Kennedy to Seek Clinton's Senate Seat". The New York Times. Retrieved December 15, 2008.
40. "U.S. Senators from New York". Retrieved December 19, 2008.
41. Smith, Ben (December 16, 2008). "Kennedy's first endorsement". Politico. Retrieved December 16, 2008.
42. ^ Einhorn, Erin (December 19, 2008). "Records show Caroline Kennedy failed to cast her vote many times since 1988". New York Daily News. Retrieved December 19, 2008. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
43. "Another Senator Kennedy?". New York: WABC-TV. Associated Press. December 5, 2008. Retrieved December 5, 2008.
44. ^ Salstonstall, David (December 17, 2008). "We know Caroline Kennedy's name, but not her views on the issues". New York Daily News. Retrieved December 20, 2008.
45. "Kennedy for the Senate". New York Post. December 16, 2008. Retrieved December 17, 2008.
46. Halbfinger, David (December 22, 2008). "Kennedy Declines to Make Financial Disclosure". The New York Times. Retrieved December 23, 2008.
47. Neumeister, Larry (December 26, 2008). "Kennedy says 9/11, Obama led her to public service". Associated Press (via Fox News). Retrieved December 26, 2008.
48. Not Ready for SNL: Caroline Kennedy's 168 'You Knows.'. The Wall Street Journal. December 29, 2008.
49. ^ Confessore, Nicholas and Hakim, Danny (January 22, 2009). "Kennedy Drops Bid for Senate Seat, Citing Personal Reasons". The New York Times. Retrieved January 9, 2010.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
50. Hakim, Danny and Confessore, Nicholas (February 3, 2009). "In Attack on Kennedy, Echo of a Spitzer Tactic". The New York Times. Retrieved February 23, 2009.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
51. Hakim, Danny and Confessore, Nicholas (February 20, 2009). "Paterson Had Staff Deny Kennedy Was Top Choice". The New York Times. Retrieved February 23, 2009.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
52. Confessore, Nicholas (May 18, 2009). "Kennedy Says Children Had No Role in Senate Decision". The New York Times. Retrieved January 9, 2010.
53. "Caroline Kennedy Withdraws Senate Bid". MSNBC. January 22, 2009. Retrieved January 22, 2009.
54. "Rahm Emanuel, Eva Longoria, Caroline Kennedy Among Obama Campaign's National Co-Chairs". The Washington Post.
55. Young, Shannon. "Caroline Kennedy urges voters to support Obama". The Boston Globe. Retrieved June 28, 2012.
56. "Caroline Kennedy chosen as Ambassador to Japan". Politico. July 24, 2013. Retrieved July 24, 2013.
57. Landler, Mark (July 24, 2013). "Caroline Kennedy Chosen to Be Japan Ambassador" The New York Times. Retrieved July 24, 2013.
58. . Bloomberg News. February 27, 2013.
59. Kamen, Al (July 13, 2013). "Caroline Kennedy Poised for Japan". The Washington Post. Retrieved July 13, 2013.
60. Bernadine Racoma (September 20, 2013). "Caroline Kennedy on Her Way to Becoming US Ambassador to Japan". Day News. Day Commerce. Retrieved September 20, 2013.
61. Katz, Celeste (December 21, 2008). "Senate-hopeful Caroline Kennedy talks gays, war, and education". New York Daily News. Retrieved December 25, 2009. Friedman said Kennedy backs gun control and opposes the death penalty. She also supports rolling back the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy, but not right now due to the "fragile" state of the economy.
62. Confessore, Nicholas (December 20, 2008). "Kennedy Offers Hints of a Platform, and a Few Surprises". The New York Times. Retrieved December 20, 2008. {{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |newspaper= (help)
63. Trager, Eric (December 23, 2008). "Caroline Kennedy gives inadequate answers to policy questions". The New York Daily News. Retrieved December 25, 2008. {{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |newspaper= (help)
64. Gedalyahu, Tzvi Ben (December 20, 2008). "Caroline Kennedy: Jerusalem is Israel's Undivided Capital". Israel National News. Retrieved December 22, 2008.
65. Ackerman makes Kennedy-Palin comparison, Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA), December 22, 2008.
66. Caroline Kennedy Is Decidedly Liberal by John Nichols, The Nation (reprinted by CBS News), December 22, 2008.
67. ^ "Library of Congress: Kennedy, Caroline". Library of Congress. Retrieved December 19, 2008.

References

• Heymann, C. David (2007). American Legacy: The Story of John and Caroline Kennedy. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0-7434-9738-4.
• Andersen, Christopher P. (2004). Sweet Caroline: Last Child of Camelot. HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-06-103225-7.

External links

• Caroline Kennedy at IMDb
• Booknotes interview with Kennedy and Ellen Alderman on In Our Defense: The Bill of Rights in Action, April 28, 1991.
• Ms. Kennedy Regrets She's Unable to Be in the Senate Today, Larissa MacFarquhar, The New Yorker, February 2, 2009

v t e United States ambassadors to Japan
Resident Minister	Harris Pruyn Van Valkenburgh DeLong
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	DeLong Bingham Hubbard Swift Coombs Dun Buck Griscom
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	Wright O'Brien Bryan Anderson Guthrie Morris Warren Woods Bancroft MacVeagh Castle Forbes Grew Murphy Allison MacArthur Reischauer Johnson Meyer Ingersoll Hodgson Mansfield Armacost Mondale Foley Baker Schieffer Roos Kennedy Hagerty Emanuel

v t e Kennedy family
I.	P. J. Kennedy (1858–1929) Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. (m.) Rose Fitzgerald
II.	Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. (1888–1969) Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. John F. Kennedy (m.) Jacqueline Bouvier Rosemary Kennedy Kathleen Kennedy (m.) William Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington Eunice Kennedy (m.) Sargent Shriver Patricia Kennedy (m./div.) Peter Lawford Robert F. Kennedy (m.) Ethel Skakel Jean Kennedy (m.) Stephen Edward Smith Edward M. "Ted" Kennedy (m./div. 1st) Joan Bennett; (m. 2nd) Victoria Reggie
III.	John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) Caroline Kennedy (m.) Edwin Schlossberg John F. Kennedy Jr. (m.) Carolyn Bessette Patrick Bouvier Kennedy Eunice Kennedy Shriver (1921–2009) Bobby Shriver Maria Shriver (m./div.) Arnold Schwarzenegger Timothy Shriver Mark Shriver Anthony Shriver Patricia Kennedy Lawford (1924–2006) Christopher Lawford Robert F. Kennedy (1925–1968) Kathleen Kennedy Townsend Joseph P. Kennedy II Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (m./sep.) Mary Richardson (m. 3rd) Cheryl Hines Michael LeMoyne Kennedy Kerry Kennedy (m./div.) Andrew Cuomo Christopher G. Kennedy Max Kennedy Douglas Harriman Kennedy Rory Kennedy (m.) Mark Bailey Jean Kennedy Smith (1928–2020) William Kennedy Smith Ted Kennedy (1932–2009) Kara Kennedy Edward M. Kennedy Jr. Patrick J. Kennedy (m.) Amy Savell
IV.	Rose Kennedy Schlossberg Tatiana Celia Kennedy Schlossberg John Bouvier Kennedy Schlossberg Katherine Schwarzenegger (m.) Chris Pratt Patrick Schwarzenegger Joseph P. Kennedy III Maeve Kennedy McKean Max Kennedy Jr.
Related	Hickory Hill Kennedy Compound Kennedy curse Merchandise Mart The Kennedys (museum) The Kennedys (miniseries) The Kennedys: After Camelot
Category	Kennedy family
m. = married; div. = divorced; sep. = separated.

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