Robert Sargent Shriver, Jr. (born November 9, 1915) is an American Democratic politician and activist. Known as "Sargent", Shriver is best known as part of the Kennedy family, the driving force behind the creation of the Peace Corps, and the Democratic Party's replacement candidate for U.S. vice president — having replaced nominee Thomas Eagleton who resigned from the ticket — during the 1972 U.S. presidential election. Upon the death of Jacqueli...
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Robert Sargent Shriver, Jr. (born November 9, 1915) is an American Democratic politician and activist. Known as "Sargent", Shriver is best known as part of the Kennedy family, the driving force behind the creation of the Peace Corps, and the Democratic Party's replacement candidate for U.S. vice president — having replaced nominee Thomas Eagleton who resigned from the ticket — during the 1972 U.S. presidential election. Upon the death of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Shriver is one of only four living spouses (along with Joan Kennedy, Vicki Kennedy, and Ethel Kennedy) of the children of Joseph P. Kennedy and Rose Kennedy.
Shriver was born in Westminster, Maryland to Robert Sargent Shriver, Sr. and his wife Hilda Shriver. Of German ancestry, the Shriver family is descended from David Shriver, who signed the Maryland Constitution and Bill of Rights at Maryland's Constitutional Convention of 1776. He spent his high school years at the Canterbury School in New Milford, Connecticut, which he...
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