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  John Kerry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kerry was born on December 11, 1943 at the Fitzsimons Army Hospital in Aurora, Colorado outside Denver, where his father, Richard Kerry, a World War II Army Air Corps test pilot, had been undergoing treatment for tuberculosis.
Kerry's paternal grandfather, Frederick A. Kerry (born Fritz Kohn), was born on May 10, 1873 in the town of Horní Benešov, Austria-Hungary (in what is now the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic), and grew up in Mödling, Austria (a small town near Vienna).
Kerry has said that his first memory is from when he was three years old, of holding his crying mother's hand while they walked through the broken glass and rubble of her childhood home in Saint-Briac, France.
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 Rosemary Forbes Kerry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Rosemary Forbes Kerry (October 27, 1913 - November 14, 2002), born Rosemary Isabel Forbes in Paris, was a daughter of James Grant Forbes of the Forbes family of China and Boston.
She married Richard John Kerry and was the mother of John Forbes Kerry, the 2004 candidate for President of the United States.
Rosemary was also the mother of Cameron Kerry, who is a Boston lawyer and adjunct law professor at Suffolk Law School, and two daughters, Diane and Peggy.
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/R/Rosemary-Forbes-Kerry.htm   (205 words)

  
 Boston.com / News / Politics / Presidential candidates / john kerry / Kerry grew up with blue-blood status   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Rosemary Forbes Kerry left many things to her son John: a flinty New England resolve, a worldly view of politics, and a middle name that conjures up images of a childhood drenched in wealth.
His mother, Rosemary Forbes, was a member of the Forbes shipping family and a descendent of John Winthrop, who helped found Boston in 1630.
Kerry's father, Richard Kerry, was a graduate of Yale University and Harvard Law School.
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 Boston Globe Online | John Kerry: A Candidate in the Making
Kerry was one of a handful of boys with Democratic leanings and a Catholic on a campus dominated by Republican Episcopalians.
Kerry lived in a three-room suite, complete with fireplace, along with his roommates, St. Paul's buddy Barbiero and Harvey Bundy, whose uncles William and McGeorge Bundy were part of the Kennedy administration brain trust and among the most aggressive proponents of escalating the US involvement in Vietnam.
Kerry's critique of American policy stood out at a time when there were few protests, and most of the public assumed Vietnam would be a winnable war, producing a fresh crop of military heroes.
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 News Crossroads   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Rosemary, his mother, dedicated much of her time as a community activist and severed as a Girl Scout leader for fifty years.
Kerry says he could not make it through this campaign trail without the love and support from all of his family members, which he cares and loves deeply.
Kerry and Bush will be focusing much of their time on the swing states, where their vote could fall either way.
www.uwec.edu /mdorsher/votesmart/Kerryprint.htm   (878 words)

  
 John Kerry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Kerry attacked Bush for having misled the country: "When the president of the United States looks at you and tells you something, there should be some trust." http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/01/27/sprj.nirq.bush/ Nevertheless, Kerry has upset many anti-war activists by saying that he does not regret being one of 29 Democratic Senators to support the resolution.
Vanessa Kerry was born on December 31, 1976.
Kerry is wealthy in his own name, and is the beneficiary of at least four trusts inherited from Forbes family members, including his mother, who died in 2002.
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 Prosecute Kerry
John Forbes Kerry was born 11 December 1943 to Richard Kerry and Rosemary Forbes Kerry in Denver, Colorado.
(Forbes, of course, denotes the Forbes.) Shortly after his birth, the Kerry family returned to their native Massachusetts, followed by a move to Washington, DC in 1950.
Kerry, renowned for his ego in a chamber not known for personal humility, has, over the years, developed a certain knack for ruffling his colleagues.
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 JohnKerry.com - About John Kerry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
John F. Kerry was born on December 11, 1943 at Fitzsimons Army Hospital in Colorado.
As he was graduating from Yale, John Kerry volunteered to serve in Vietnam, because, as he later said, "it was the right thing to do." He believed that "to whom much is given, much is required." And he felt he had an obligation to give something back to his country.
Teresa Heinz Kerry is the chairman of The Howard Heinz Endowment and the Heinz Family Philanthropies.
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 Inheritance boosts wealth of presidential candidate Kerry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
After the death of his mother, Rosemary Forbes Kerry, last November, the Massachusetts Democrat inherited three trusts with between $300,000 and $1.5 million in assets.
Rosemary Kerry, who was 89 when she died, was a member of Boston's wealthy Forbes family.
Kerry, one of nine contenders for the Democratic presidential nomination, also owns another trust that is worth between $100,000 and $250,000.
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 John Kerry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
John Kerry was born in 1943 in Colorado to Richard Kerry and Rosemary Forbes Kerry, and upon his graduation from Yale University in 1966 (where he delivered the valedictory address), enlisted in the U.S. Navy.
Kerry has 2 children of his own and 3 step-children.
Kerry is very nearly the perfect presidential candidate: acclaimed war veteran, spotless conduct record, relatively, and good-looking.
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Although John attended elite schools throughout Europe and New England, the tuition was paid by a wealthy great-aunt, as Richard Kerry's salary could not accommodate the schools attended by the Kerry children.
Summers were spent at the Forbes family estate in France, and John enjoyed much greater extravagance there than he had come to know back in Massachusetts.
Kerry's paternal grandfather, Frederick A. Kerry (born Fritz Kohn), was born on May 10, 1873 in the town of Horni Benesov, Austria-Hungary (in what is now the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic), and grew up in Mödling, Austria (a small town near Vienna).
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 John Kerry’s family traced back to royalty - Genetic Genealogy - MSNBC.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry's mother Rosemary Forbes Kerry, seen in this family photo from 1940, was a member of the affluent Forbes shipping family and a descendant of John Winthrop, who helped found Boston in 1630.
After months of research into Kerry’s ancestry, Burke’s Peerage, experts on British aristocracy, reported on Monday that the Vietnam War veteran is related to all the royal houses of Europe and can claim kinship with Russian czar Ivan the Terrible, a previous emperor of Byzantium and the shahs of Persia.
Kerry is a descendant of bygone kings of England, Henry III and Henry II, and is distantly related to Richard the Lionheart, who led the third Crusade in 1189, according to Burke’s.
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 Aristocracy in America, the case study on John Forbes Kerry
John Forbes Kerry is a study in aristocracy in America founded on birth and wealth, both of which he has acquired from others.
He is aloof because he has lived a life of separateness and he has been made to believe he is superior to the average citizen.
Kerry's "pedigree" has been widely known for some time: the families Forbes, Winthrop, Thorne, Stimson and most recently, Heinz.
www.talkingproud.us /Politics060204.html   (263 words)

  
 Re: [Goanet]JFK - John Forbes Kerry
John Kerry's roots are well known as is the use of 'Boston Brahmins' to describe a class of New Englanders who claim hereditary or cultural descent from the Anglo-Saxon Protestants (commonly called WASPs) who founded the city of Boston, Massachusetts and originally settled New England.
> «John Forbes Kerry, son of Richard John Kerry and Rosemary Isabel Forbes > Kerry, was born in a military hospital in Denver, Colorado, on 11th > December, 1943.
His mother belongs to > the Forbes family, one of the richest in America, member of the aristocratic > elite of Massachusetts, known as the "Brahmins of Boston!».
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 Cameron Kerry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
After graduating from Harvard, Cameron Kerry went to work on his brother John Kerry's 1972 congressional campaign for the Massachusetts 5th district.
On 18 September 1972, the day before his brother would win the Democratic nomination for the election, Cameron was caught in the basement of the building which housed his brother's campaign headquarters as well as the headquarters of opposing candidate Tony DiFruscia.
Kerry lost that election to local Republican and then-state legislator Paul Cronin.
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 John Kerry --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Kerry was born in a Denver military hospital, the son of Richard Kerry, a World War II pilot and diplomat, and Rosemary Forbes Kerry, a member of the wealthy Forbes family and a descendant of John Winthrop, first governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Kerry won 48% of the popular vote, compared with 51% for Bush, with the vote in the electoral college 251 to 286.
Kerry found support principally among voters who disapproved of the U.S. Edwards, John
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Forbes was descended from William Forbes, the Laird of Newe, an extended family that included many baronets, Burke's...
John Forbes Kerry and his first cousin Brice Lalonde summered there, and at another Forbes family estate in France, at Saint-Brieuc when he was growing up.
BOSTON (AP) — Rosemary Forbes Kerry left many things to her son John: a flinty New England resolve, a worldly view of politics, and a middle name that conjures up images of a childhood drenched in wealth.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/keyword?k=blueblood   (1724 words)

  
 John Kerry: A 'cheap' aristocrat - Politics - MSNBC.com
Kerry grew up in a world of elite private schools and vacations on a French estate.
BOSTON - Rosemary Forbes Kerry left many things to her son John: a flinty New England resolve, a worldly view of politics, and a middle name that conjures up images of a childhood drenched in wealth.
When his mother died in 2002, he inherited trusts with $300,000 to $1.5 million in assets — a pittance compared to his wife’s estimated $500 million.
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 Curmudgeonly & Skeptical: Did we say flip-flop Kerry?
His Yale Yearbook entry, 1966
If your goal is to change minds and influence people, it's probably not a good idea to begin by asserting that virtually all elected Democrats are liars.
No Kerry Club." It's possible that in a snit Kerry responded by taking his marbles to the Republican Club the following year.
BTW, Kerry spoke at his graduation and used the occasion to condemn the Vietnam war.
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 Kerry friends recall ‘cheap’ college years
BOSTON (AP) - Rosemary Forbes Kerry left many things to her son John: a flinty New England resolve, a worldly view of politics and a middle name that conjures up images of a childhood drenched in wealth.
His mother, Rosemary Forbes, was a descendant of John Winthrop, who helped found Boston in 1630.
"He exuded more worldliness and sophistication than your average Yale undergraduate," said Chip Stanberry, Kerry’s debating partner at Yale and now head of a health-care technology firm in Houston.
archive.showmenews.com /2004/Apr/20040408News016.asp   (715 words)

  
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Kerry's Mother Died at Home, Not at Hospital
Rosemary Forbes Kerry By News Staff Obituaries (Saturday, November 16, 2002) MANCHESTER-BY-THE-SEA - Rosemary Forbes Kerry, a community activist and the mother of U.S. Sen. John Kerry, died Thursday at her home.
The cause of death was respiratory complications, a spokesman for Sen. Kerry s...
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 John Kerry
Jewish Ancestry paternal grandfather Frederick A. Kerry (born Fritz Kohn)
: His to Lose -- Can Kerry go the distance?
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