Eunice Kennedy Shriver
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Dame Eunice Kennedy Shriver DSG |
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Eunice Mary Kennedy July 10, 1921 Brookline, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Died | August 11, 2009 (aged 88) Hyannis, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Cause of death | Stroke |
| Resting place | St. Francis Xavier Roman Catholic Church parish cemetery Centerville, Massachusetts |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Manhattanville College |
| Alma mater | Stanford University |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Sargent Shriver (m. 1953) |
| Children |
Bobby Shriver Maria Shriver Timothy Shriver Mark Shriver Anthony Shriver |
| Parent(s) |
Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. Rose Fitzgerald |
| Relatives | See Kennedy family |
| Website | eunicekennedyshriver.org |
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Dame Eunice Mary Kennedy Shriver, DSG (July 10, 1921 – August 11, 2009) was a member of the Kennedy family; she was the sister of President John F. Kennedy and senators Robert F. Kennedy and Ted Kennedy. Her husband, Sargent Shriver, was the United States Ambassador to France during the Lyndon Johnson presidency and the Democratic vice presidential candidate in the 1972 U.S. presidential election. In 1962, she founded Camp Shriver, which started on her Maryland farm known as Timberlawn, and evolved into the Special Olympics in 1968.
Eunice Mary Kennedy was born in Brookline, Massachusetts; she was the fifth of nine children of Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., and Rose Fitzgerald.
She was educated at the Convent of The Sacred Heart, Roehampton, London and at [ Manhattanville College]] in Upper Manhattan (the school later moved further North to Purchase, New York). After graduating from Stanford University with a Bachelor of Science degree in sociology in 1943, she worked for the Special War Problems Division of the U.S. State Department. She eventually moved to the U.S. Justice Department as executive secretary for a project dealing with juvenile delinquency. She served as a social worker at the Federal Industrial Institution for Women for one year before moving to Chicago in 1951 to work with the House of the Good Shepherd women's shelter and the Chicago Juvenile Court.
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