Theresa Heinz Kerry

Teresa Heinz
Heinz in 2013
Born	Maria Teresa Thierstein Simões-Ferreira (1938-10-05) October 5, 1938 (age 78) Lourenço Marques, Portuguese East Africa (now Maputo, Mozambique)
Residence	Fox Chapel, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Nationality	American and Portuguese
Other names	Teresa Heinz Kerry
Education	University of the Witwatersrand (B.A.) University of Geneva, School of Translation and Interpretation (M.A.)
Occupation	Businesswoman, philanthropist
Net worth	US$1 billion (2008)
Political party	Democratic (2003–present)
Spouse(s)	Henry John Heinz III (m. 1966–1991; his death) John Forbes Kerry (m. 1995–present)
Children	Henry John Heinz IV André Thierstein Heinz Christopher Drake Heinz
Parent(s)	José Simões-Ferreira, Jr. Irene Thierstein

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 and is the wife of former U.S. Secretary of State, long-time Senator and 2004 presidential nominee John Kerry.

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.

On February 5, 1966, at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania's gothic Heinz Chapel on the campus of the University of Pittsburgh, Simões-Ferreira married future Senator Henry John Heinz III, an heir to the H. J. Heinz Company. In 1971, she became a naturalized citizen. The couple had three sons:

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