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Here is a have a look at the lifetime of Caroline Kennedy, former US ambassador to Japan and Australia.
Birth date: November 27, 1957
Birth place: New York, New York
Birth title: Caroline Bouvier Kennedy
Father: John F. Kennedy, thirty fifth US president
Mother: Jacqueline (Bouvier) Kennedy
Marriage: Edwin Arthur Schlossberg (July 19, 1986-present)
Children: John “Jack,” Tatiana and Rose
Education: Harvard (Radcliffe), B.A, 1980; Columbia University, J.D., 1988
Religion: Roman Catholic
Only surviving member of the White House Kennedy household.
Neil Diamond revealed she was the inspiration for his 1969 hit tune “Sweet Caroline.”
1980-1985 – Museum of Modern Art researcher and affiliate movie producer.
January 17, 1984-present – Member of the Board of Directors of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation.
January 6, 1987-current – President of the Board of Directors of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation.
May 19, 1994 – Her mom, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, dies of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
July 16, 1999 – Her brother, John F. Kennedy Jr., his spouse, Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, and sister-in-law, Lauren Bessette, are killed in a airplane crash close to Martha’s Vineyard.
August 15, 2000 – Addresses the Democratic National Convention on behalf of Al Gore and Joe Lieberman.
October 2002-August 2004 – CEO of the Office of Strategic Partnerships for the New York City Department of Education.
January 28, 2008 – Formally endorses Barack Obama for US president.
August 25, 2008 – Addresses the Democratic National Convention in a tribute to her uncle, Ted Kennedy.
December 2008 – New York Governor David Paterson confirms Kennedy has expressed curiosity in filling Hillary Clinton’s former Senate seat, the identical seat her uncle Robert Kennedy held at his dying in 1968.
January 22, 2009 – Citing private causes, Kennedy requests her title be withdrawn from consideration for the Senate seat.
September 9, 2012 – Addresses the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina. Her son, Jack Schlossberg, additionally attends the conference and contributes reviews to NCS.
July 24, 2013 – Is nominated by President Obama to be the US ambassador to Japan.
November 12, 2013-January 18, 2017 – Serves as ambassador to Japan.
December 15, 2021 – President Joe Biden proclaims his intention to appoint Kennedy to function US ambassador to Australia.
May 5, 2022 – Is confirmed by the US Senate because the Ambassador to Australia. Two months later, Kennedy presents her credentials to Canberra’s Governor General David Hurley, marking the official begin of her submit.
January 28, 2025 – Kennedy warns that her cousin Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a “predator” forward of his confirmation hearings to be President Donald Trump’s Department of Health and Human Services secretary, urging senators to reject his nomination.
May 4, 2025 – Kennedy presents former Vice President Mike Pence with the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award for “putting his life and career on the line” in overseeing the certification of the 2020 presidential election outcomes.