Nancy Kissinger
Nancy Sharon Kissinger (born April 13, 1934 as Nancy Maginnes) is an American philanthropist, and the wife of former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. The couple married on March 31, 1974, in Arlington, Virginia.[1]
Life and career
Kissinger was born in Manhattan and raised in White Plains, New York. Her parents were Agnes (née McKinley) and Albert Bristol Maginnes, a wealthy lawyer.[2] She received a B.A. in history in 1955 from Mount Holyoke College.
She was a long-time aide to New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller before her marriage, 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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