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Eunice Kennedy Shriver Snapshot

First Name

Eunice

Last Name

Shriver

Date of Birth

10 July 1921

Middle Name

Kennedy

Build

Slim

Eye Color

Blue

Place of Birth

Brookline, Massachusetts

Star Sign

Cancer

Ethnicity

White

Religion

Roman Catholic

Claim to Fame

in 1968, she helped Ann McGlone Burke nationalize the Special Olympics

Date of Death

11 August 2009

Place of Death

Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis, Massachusetts.

Cause of Death

Natural Causes

Nationality

American

Gender

Female

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Wikipedia Text

Eunice Kennedy Shriver (July 10, 1921 � August 11, 2009) a member of the Kennedy family, sister to President John F. Kennedy and Senators Robert F. Kennedy and Edward Kennedy, was the founder in 1962 of Camp Shriver, and in 1968, the Special Olympics. Her husband, Robert Sargent Shriver, Jr., was United States Ambassador to France, the founder of the Peace Corps, and the Democratic vice-presidential candidate in the 1972 U.S. presidential election. Their daughter, Maria Shriver, was married to actor and former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Couple Profile

Eunice Mary Kennedy Shriver (July 10, 1921- August 11, 2009) was a member of the Kennedy family and helped to found Special Olympics in the 1960s as a national organization. Born in Brookline, Massachusetts, she was the fifth of nine children of Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. and Rose Kennedy (n�e Fitzgerald). Kennedy was educated at the Convent of the Sacred Heart, Roehampton, London, England, and graduated in 1944 from Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, with a Bachelor of Science in Social Science/Social Thought, after which she went to work for the U.S. Department of State, in the Special War Problems division. In 1950, she became a social worker at the then-named Federal Industrial Institution for Women in Alderson, West Virginia, and the following year she moved to Chicago, Illinois, to work with the House of the Good Shepherd and the Chicago Juvenile Court. On May 23, 1953, she married Robert Sargent Shriver, Jr. at Roman Catholic St. Patrick`s Cathedral in New York City, New York. Her husband served as the U.S. Ambassador to France from 1968 to 1970 and was the Democratic U.S. Vice Presidential candidate in 1972 (with George McGovern as the candidate for U.S. President). They had five children: Robert Sargent Shriver III (born April 28, 1954), Maria Owings Shriver (November 6, 1955), Timothy Perry Shriver (August 29, 1959), Mark Kennedy Shriver (February 17, 1964), and Anthony Paul Kennedy Shriver (July 20, 1965). In the early morning of August 11, 2009 Shriver died at Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis, Massachusetts. The immediate cause of her death has not yet been disclosed.

Couple Profile Source

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eunice_Kennedy_Shriver

University

Stanford University

Full Name at Birth

Eunice Mary Kennedy

Role ID

Producer

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