Vanessa Bradford Kerry (born December 31, 1976 in Boston, Massachusetts) is the younger daughter of John Kerry and his first wife, Julia Thorne. She gained national recognition while campaigning for her father during the 2004 presidential election.
Kerry's mother, Julia Thorne, was an author, who died in 2006 due to transitional cell carcinoma. Her father, John Kerry, is the Senior Senator from Massachusetts in the United States Senate. Her older...
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Vanessa Bradford Kerry (born December 31, 1976 in Boston, Massachusetts) is the younger daughter of John Kerry and his first wife, Julia Thorne. She gained national recognition while campaigning for her father during the 2004 presidential election.
Kerry's mother, Julia Thorne, was an author, who died in 2006 due to transitional cell carcinoma. Her father, John Kerry, is the Senior Senator from Massachusetts in the United States Senate. Her older sister is Alexandra Kerry. After her parents divorced, she moved with her mother to Bozeman, Montana. She attended the high school, Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts.
On October 10, 2009 in Boston, Kerry married Brian Vala Nahed, a Neurosurgery resident at Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Nahed's family resides in Los Angeles.
Kerry graduated summa cum laude from Yale University with a major in biology. While a student at Yale, she played for the varsity lacrosse team. After graduating with her bachelor's degree, she went to the...
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