Kathleen Kennedy Townsend

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Kathleen Kennedy Townsend (2014)

Kathleen Kennedy Townsend (born July 4, 1951 in Greenwich , Connecticut ) is an American politician ( Democratic Party ).

Life

Kathleen Kennedy Townsend is the eldest of eleven children of US Senator Robert F. Kennedy , who was assassinated in 1968, and his wife Ethel . Their own political career began in 1986 with the candidacy for the US House of Representatives in the second congressional district of the state of Maryland , but she lost the Republican Helen Delich Bentley . As a result, she held several offices in the state government, including she was Deputy Attorney General of Maryland. After she was a member of the Electoral College in 1992 , which elected Bill Clinton as the new US President , she then worked in his administration as Deputy Assistant Attorney General .

She served as Lieutenant Governor of Maryland alongside Governor Parris Glendening from 1995 to 2003 . In 2002 she unsuccessfully applied for the office of governor. Republican Robert L. Ehrlich won the election . He got 51.6 percent of the vote, Townsend got 47.7 percent. This was the first time in 35 years that Republicans won a gubernatorial election in Maryland.

In the run-up to the 2008 presidential election , Kathleen Kennedy Townsend and her brother Robert supported the Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton . Her cousin Caroline and her uncle Edward had spoken out in favor of the later victorious Barack Obama .

Kathleen Kennedy Townsend lives in Annapolis with her husband David, a professor at St. John's College . The two had four daughters together. On April 3, 2020, their 40-year-old daughter Maeve Kennedy Townsend McKean and her eight-year-old son Gideon were killed in a canoe accident on the South River in Maryland, USA.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Los Angeles Times: Kennedys for Clinton
  2. ↑ Granddaughter of Robert F. Kennedy & Son dies in a canoe accident

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personal data
SURNAME Townsend, Kathleen Kennedy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hartington Kennedy, Kathleen (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Greenwich , Connecticut