Teresa Heinz
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Maria Teresa Thierstein Simões-Ferreira October 5, 1938 Lourenço Marques, Portuguese East Africa (now Maputo, Mozambique) |
| Residence | Fox Chapel, Pennsylvania |
| Nationality | American and Portuguese |
| Other names | Teresa Heinz Kerry |
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| Occupation | Businesswoman, philanthropist |
| Net worth | US$1 billion (2008) |
| Political party | Democratic (2003–present) |
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Teresa Heinz Kerry (born Maria Teresa Thierstein Simões-Ferreira on October 5, 1938), also known as Teresa Heinz, is a Mozambican (at the time, part of Portuguese East Africa) Eastborn American businesswoman and philanthropist. She was the widow of former U.S. Senator H. John Heinz III (R-Pennsylvania) and is the wife of former U.S. Secretary of State, Senator and presidential candidate John Kerry (D-Massachusetts).
Maria Teresa Thierstein Simões-Ferreira was born in Mozambique, at the time a Portuguese overseas colony, to Portuguese parents, tropical-disease specialist Dr. José Simões-Ferreira, Jr. (1910–1989), and Irene Thierstein (1912–1997). Irene, a Portuguese and British national in Lourenço Marques, was the daughter of Alberto Thierstein, a British national from Valletta, Malta (at the time a British-ruled territory), and Maria Burló, born in Alexandria, Egypt, who both migrated to Portuguese East Africa.
In 1960, Teresa Simões-Ferreira earned a Bachelor of Arts in Romance Languages and Literature from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. In 1963, she graduated from the School of Translation and Interpretation at the University of Geneva and moved to the United States to be an interpreter at the United Nations.
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