Nancy Kissinger
Nancy Kissinger | |
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 Nancy Kissinger at the Metropolitan Opera opening in 2009 | |
| Born | Nancy Sharon Maginnes April 13, 1934 |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Mount Holyoke College (B.A., History, 1955) Harvard University |
| Occupation | Philanthropist |
| Spouse | |
Nancy Sharon Kissinger (born Maginnes; born April 13, 1934) is an American philanthropist, and the wife of former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. The couple married on March 30, 1974, in Arlington, Virginia.[1]
Life and career
Kissinger was born in Manhattan and raised in White Plains, New York. Her parents were Agnes (born McKinley) and Albert Bristol Maginnes, a wealthy lawyer.[2] She received a B.A. in history in 1955 from Mount Holyoke College.
Before her marriage, she was a long-time aide to New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller, recommended to him in 1964 by her future husband, then a professor at Harvard, where she was a student. Her first job was as Professor Kissinger's researcher on a Rockefeller task force; she continued working for Rockefeller at the Rockefeller Brothers Fund after the task force finished its work.[3] She later became director of international studies for Rockefeller's Commission on Critical Choices for Americans.[4]
References
- ^ "Kissinger and Nancy Maginnes, Rockefeller Aide, Are Wed Near Capital and Fly to Acapulco for Honeymoon". New York Times. March 31, 1974.
- ^ Kissinger: a biography, Walter Isaacson, Simon & Schuster, 1992
- ^ "Somebody to Come Home To". Time Magazine. April 8, 1974.
- ^ "Nancy Kissinger Hospitalized with Undisclosed Ailment". Seattle Times. December 18, 1994.
- "Nancy Maginnes Kissinger." Almanac of Famous People, 9th ed. Thomson Gale, 2007. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Michigan: Gale, 2009. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC. Document Number: K1601047266. Fee, via Fairfax County Public Library. Accessed 2009-11-17/
External links
- Interview on her visit with Bess W. Truman in 1975, in Independence, Missouri, with her husband (larger photo at the Wayback Machine (archived February 5, 2005))
- Nancy and father Albert Bristol Maginnes
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