Jean Ann Kennedy Smith (born February 20, 1928) is an American diplomat, a former United States Ambassador to Ireland.
She is the eighth of nine children born to Joseph Patrick Kennedy, Sr. and Rose Elizabeth Fitzgerald, and the only one still living.
Born Jean Ann Kennedy in Boston, Massachusetts, she was the shyest and most-guarded of the Kennedy children. Her mother said of her youngest daughter, "She was born so late, that she only was able t...
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Jean Ann Kennedy Smith (born February 20, 1928) is an American diplomat, a former United States Ambassador to Ireland.
She is the eighth of nine children born to Joseph Patrick Kennedy, Sr. and Rose Elizabeth Fitzgerald, and the only one still living.
Born Jean Ann Kennedy in Boston, Massachusetts, she was the shyest and most-guarded of the Kennedy children. Her mother said of her youngest daughter, "She was born so late, that she only was able to enjoy the tragedies, and not the triumphs."
She attended Manhattanville College (at the time a Sacred Heart school), located in Purchase, New York, where she met and befriended two future sisters-in-law: Ethel Skakel, who married her brother Robert F. Kennedy in 1950, and Joan Bennett, who married her brother Ted in 1958.
On May 19, 1956, in a small chapel of the Roman Catholic Saint Patrick's Cathedral, New York City, New York, she and Stephen Edward Smith were married.
The Smiths maintained a lower profile than some other members of the...
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