Global InformationCaroline Kennedy information
Caroline Kennedy | |
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 Kennedy in 2022 | |
| United States Ambassador to Australia | |
Incumbent | |
| Assumed office July 25, 2022 | |
| President | Joe Biden |
| Preceded by | Arthur B. Culvahouse Jr. |
| United States Ambassador to Japan | |
| In office November 19, 2013 – January 18, 2017 | |
| President | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | John Roos |
| Succeeded by | Bill Hagerty |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Caroline Bouvier Kennedy November 27, 1957 New York City, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse |
Edwin Schlossberg (m. 1986) |
| Children |
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| Parents |
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| Relatives | Kennedy family |
| Education | Harvard University (AB) Columbia University (JD) |
Caroline Bouvier Kennedy[1][2] (born November 27, 1957)[3] is an American author, attorney, and diplomat serving as the United States ambassador to Australia since 2022. Kennedy previously served in the Obama administration as the United States ambassador to Japan from 2013 to 2017.[4] She is a member of the Kennedy family, the only surviving child of US president John F. Kennedy and first lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
Less than a month before Caroline's third birthday, her father won the 1960 presidential election. She spent her early childhood years in the White House during his presidency, and was almost six when he was assassinated on November 22, 1963. The following year, she and her brother John F. Kennedy Jr. moved with their mother Jacqueline 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 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.[5]
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.[6] Eight years later, Joe Biden appointed Kennedy as United States ambassador to Australia and she took office following her confirmation on June 10, 2022.[7]
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- ^ 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).
- ^ Landler, Mark (July 24, 2013). "Obama Nominates Caroline Kennedy to Be Ambassador to Japan". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved July 6, 2017.
- ^ "PN1661 – Nomination of Caroline Kennedy for Department of State, 117th Congress (2021–2022)". Congress.gov. May 5, 2022.