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Here’s a have a look at the lifetime of former Secretary of State John Kerry.
Birth date: December 11, 1943
Birth place: Aurora, Colorado
Birth identify: John Forbes Kerry
Father: Richard Kerry, a Foreign Service officer
Mother: Rosemary (Forbes) Kerry
Marriages: Teresa Heinz (1995-present); Julia Thorne (1970-1988, divorced)
Children: with Julia Thorne: Vanessa, 1976 and Alexandra, 1973
Education: Yale University, B.A., 1966; Boston College, J.D., 1976
Military Service: US Navy, 1966-1970, Lieutenant
Religion: Roman Catholic
Grew up abroad, having lived in Berlin earlier than going to a Swiss boarding faculty at age 11.
After his return from Vietnam, he grew to become a pacesetter of the group Vietnam Veterans Against the War.
Kerry holds the record for the most miles of travel by a US secretary of state, having traveled more than 1.4 million miles when he left office in January 2017.
Appeared in a cameo function on NBC’s “Cheers.” His final identify is spelled incorrectly on the 1992 episode’s finish credit, as “John Kerrey.”
1966-1969 – Serves within the Navy in Vietnam as a gunboat officer on the Mekong Delta. Kerry is awarded the Silver Star, the Bronze Star and three Purple Hearts.
1971 – Speaks to members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and makes headlines at a Washington, DC, protest by disposing of his medals on the Capitol garden. Later admits the medals belonged to another person.
1972 – Runs unsuccessfully for Congress, Massachusetts’ fifth District.
1976 – Is admitted to the Massachusetts State Bar.
1976-1979 – District lawyer of Middlesex County, Massachusetts.
1979-1982 – Partner within the legislation agency Kerry & Sragow in Boston.
1982-1984 – Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts below Michael Dukakis.
1984 – Is elected as a Democrat to the US Senate for Massachusetts.
1990 – Wins a second time period within the US Senate.
1996 – Reelected to the Senate.
November 5, 2002 – Is reelected to a fourth Senate time period. He runs unopposed and is the primary Massachusetts senator in 80 years with no main social gathering opposition.
February 12, 2003 – Has surgical procedure to take away a cancerous tumor on his prostate gland. Kerry’s medical doctors announce the most cancers had not unfold and he won’t must have radiation therapies. He is launched February 15.
September 2, 2003 – Formally declares his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for president. In Kerry’s announcement speech, he says President George W. Bush is taking America “in the wrong direction.”
March 11, 2004 – NCS reviews Kerry has acquired the precise variety of Democratic delegates to guarantee his nomination because the candidate for president.
July 6, 2004 – Kerry names Senator John Edwards (D-NC) as his vice presidential operating mate.
November 2, 2004 – Bush is reelected with 62,040,606 votes to Kerry’s 59,028,109. Kerry receives 252 Electoral College votes, and Bush will get 292.
November 3, 2004 – Calls Bush to concede the White House race.
November 1, 2006 – Apologizes after saying school college students want to check laborious or else they’ll “get stuck in Iraq.”
January 24, 2007 – Announces he won’t be operating for president within the 2008 election and can run for a fifth Senate time period as a substitute.
January 10, 2008 – Endorses Barack Obama within the 2008 presidential race, not former operating mate Edwards.
November 4, 2008 – Wins a fifth time period within the US Senate.
2009-2013 – Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
June 4, 2009 – The IRS information a $820,000 lien towards Kerry’s 2004 presidential marketing campaign over payroll taxes.
August 2009 – Has hip surgical procedure to handle continual ache.
August 2011 – Kerry is chosen as one in every of 12 members of the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, created to work out $1.5 trillion in deficit discount after an preliminary spherical of greater than $900 billion in spending cuts.
December 21, 2012 – Is nominated to be secretary of state by President Obama.
January 29, 2013 – Kerry is confirmed as the following secretary of state by the US Senate; the vote is 94-3.
February 1, 2013 – Is sworn in because the 68th secretary of state.
May 31, 2015 – Breaks his femur whereas driving his bike in Scionzier, France. Kerry is flown to a close-by hospital in Geneva, Switzerland, for examination.
June 2, 2015 – After returning to the United States early for therapy of his leg damage, Kerry participates through telephone in talks with European and Middle Eastern allies about ISIS. During the summit, Kerry declares the terrorist community is “no more a state than I am a helicopter.”
June 12, 2015 – Kerry is discharged from the hospital after present process surgical procedure. Leaning on crutches, he greets the media and ensures reporters that nuclear talks with Iran will proceed as scheduled.
July 14, 2015 – The nuclear deal with Iran is finalized after quite a few deadline extensions. Discussing the deal in Vienna, the place the peace talks befell, Kerry says the settlement was lengthy within the works as a result of the United States and its allies made robust calls for. “Believe me, had we been willing to settle for a lesser deal, we would have finished this negotiation a long time ago,” Kerry tells the media at a information convention.
July 18, 2015 – During an interview with NCS’s Jake Tapper, Kerry declares that he has little interest in launching a 2016 presidential marketing campaign. “Zero. Absolutely none whatsoever,” Kerry says.
August 14, 2015 – Kerry visits Havana, Cuba, to boost the flag above the US embassy because it reopens for the primary time in 54 years.
April 11, 2016 – Kerry becomes the first sitting US secretary of state to visit the Hiroshima memorial in Japan. Hiroshima was devastated when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the city in August 1945.
December 10, 2016 – French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault presents Kerry with the insignia of Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor at a ceremony in Paris.
January 20, 2017 – Leaves workplace.
March 1, 2017 – The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace announces that Kerry might be becoming a member of them as a visiting distinguished statesman.
August 2017 – Serves as co-leader of the Carter Center’s mission of observers in Kenyan elections.
October 4, 2017 – Is named chairman of the Bank of America Global Advisory Council.
September 4, 2018 – His memoir, “Every Day Is Extra,” is printed.
December 1, 2019 – Launches World War Zero, a bipartisan initiative of world leaders and celebrities to fight the local weather disaster.
December 5, 2019 – Kerry endorses Joe Biden for president in the 2020 race, saying the former vice president has the character and leadership skills to beat President Donald Trump.
November 23, 2020 – President-elect Biden appoints Kerry as his special presidential envoy for climate. Kerry might be a Cabinet-level official and can sit on the National Security Council (NSC), marking “the first time that the NSC will include an official dedicated to climate change,” in accordance the Biden transition workforce.
November 9, 2022 – Kerry announces a new, controversial plan to boost money for local weather motion within the creating world. The plan has already attracted criticism because of the means will probably be financed, with cash raised in gross sales of carbon credits, which permit corporations to pay for another person to chop their planet-warming emissions, as a substitute of slicing their very own.
November 18, 2022 – The State Department says Kerry has examined optimistic for Covid-19 on the United Nations’ COP27 local weather summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, however is “working with his negotiations team and foreign counterparts by phone to ensure a successful outcome of COP27.”
July 2023 – Kerry travels to Beijing for local weather talks along with his Chinese counterparts. In the assembly with China’s Premier Li Qiang, Kerry stresses the “need for China to decarbonize the power sector, cut methane emissions, and reduce deforestation,” a spokesperson for the US State Department says in a statement.
March 2024 – Steps down as US climate envoy.
May 3, 2024 – Is awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor.