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  Vanessa Kerry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Vanessa Bradford Kerry (born December 31, 1976) is the younger daughter of U.S. Senator and former Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry.
Kerry graduated summa cum laude (with highest honors) from Yale University.
She has an elder sister, Alexandra Kerry, and her mother is Julia Thorne, to whom John Kerry was married from 1970 until 1988.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vanessa_Kerry   (223 words)

  
 Alexandra Kerry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Alexandra Forbes Kerry (born September 5, 1973) is the elder daughter of 2004 US Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry.
Kerry holds a B.A. from Brown University and an M.F.A. degree from AFI Conservatory.
Kerry's appearance at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival received much media attention as a result of her father's presidential bid and her attire.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alexandra_Kerry   (254 words)

  
 SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Politics -- Final night of convention becomes Kerry family affair
Vanessa Kerry spoke Thursday of her father's bedside care for his dying mother, and Alexandra told of his beyond-the-call efforts to revive a childhood pet, anecdotes designed to reveal a side of John Kerry that few Americans have seen.
BOSTON – Vanessa Kerry spoke Thursday of her father's bedside care for his dying mother, and Alexandra told of his beyond-the-call efforts to revive a childhood pet, anecdotes designed to reveal a side of John Kerry that few Americans have seen.
Vanessa, 27, described how her father built a small replica of a tree for his mother, with real leaves and copper wire, to bring "a little bit of autumn to her bedside" before she died two years ago.
www.signonsandiego.com /news/politics/federal/20040729-1741-cvn-kerrysdaughters.html   (448 words)

  
 AEGiS-WashBlade: Kerry would double AIDS spending, daughter says: Vanessa Kerry asserts father would put 'science ...
Vanessa Kerry (right), daughter of Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry, speaks with Judi Clark, who is HIV-positive, during the National Alliance for People with AIDS conference in Atlanta last week.
Kerry said her father - an original co-sponsor of the Ryan White CARE Act in 1990 - is committed to providing additional funding to ensure local HIV agencies are fully supported.
Vanessa Kerry has spoken to gay media outlets in the past and Kerry campaign officials said the presidential candidate and his family would continue to speak with gay media as part of the campaign's effort to include gay Americans.
www.aegis.com /news/wb/2004/WB040916.html   (1699 words)

  
 Runner's World - Boston Marathon Vanessa Kerry Runs 3:31:35 in Debut Marathon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Among the first-time marathoners at Boston was one of Massachusetts's famous daughters, Vanessa Kerry, 28.
Kerry, who has learned a thing or two about running long, tough races from her dad, 2004 presidential nominee John Kerry, finished in a gritty 3:31:35--a creditable time for a newbie suffering from ITB syndrome in a hot-weather marathon.
Kerry, a 30-mile-a-week runner, said she wanted to run the marathon because it gave her a chance to run for Dana-Farber, a charity close to her heart.
www.runnersworld.com /events/boston05/news_kerry.html   (268 words)

  
 The Harvard Crimson :: News :: HMS' Vanessa Kerry Campaigns on Campus
Vanessa Kerry, the youngest daughter of Sen. John F. Kerry, the frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination, last night decried the Bush administration’s handling of the presidency and told students that her father was the right man to bring “opportunity” back to the country.
Kerry, a 27-year-old student at Harvard Medical School, is splitting her time this year between completing her degree and working for her father’s campaign.
Kerry’s passion for her father and commitment to the campaign apparently struck the right note with the audience, which included a significant number of people sporting “John Kerry 2004” stickers and pins.
www.thecrimson.com /article.aspx?ref=357787   (612 words)

  
 Vanessa Kerry speaks in support of father   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Vanessa Kerry, Sen. John Kerry’s daughter, spoke to students and community members Monday in support of her father’s presidential campaign.
Kerry, a third-year medical student at Harvard, said her drive to improve health care in the United States played a role in her decision to join her father's campaign because she believes he would fix many of the country's long-standing problems.
Kerry said her father would fight against the outsourcing of jobs and would offset some of the challenges associated with cheap overseas labor by renewing investments in domestic sectors.
www.dailybruin.ucla.edu /news/articles.asp?id=27589   (739 words)

  
 The First Twins: Kerry's Daughters
Vanessa, a blonde with piercing blue eyes who resembles her dad, is a third-year med student at Harvard Medical School.
Kerry says he never pressured his daughters to join the campaign and was surprised they decided to give up their relative anonymity to help him.
The author-info line (Vanessa Kerry is a third-year medical student and a candidate for a master's degree in health policy, international relations, and economics) is a good tidbit of info on Vanessa.
www.thefirsttwins.com /kerry.html   (803 words)

  
 The New York Times > Washington > Campaign 2004 > Kerry Daughters Revel in Sublime Experience   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Kerry, 30, said of her new life as the daughter of the man who would be president.
Kerry and her sister Vanessa, 27, will literally be on stage here at the Democratic National Convention to help introduce Senator John Kerry to the thousands of delegates nominating him for president and a national television audience.
Kerry's children appear at fund-raisers and forums, they are just as likely to spin stories of a sweet man who sent "care packages'' of chocolate chip cookies while they were in college as to give talking points on health care or the environment.
www.nytimes.com /2004/07/29/politics/campaign/29daughters.html?ei=5090&en=5f6e791969cc6a94&ex=1248840000&partner=rssuserland&pagewanted=print&position=   (1401 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Keeping Kerry company   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Alex was 9 and Vanessa 6 when their parents separated in 1982, the year Kerry became lieutenant governor of Massachusetts under Michael Dukakis.
In 1991, Kerry, a decorated Vietnam vet, took his daughters to Vietnam, a trip that Vanessa says inspired her to enter the global health field.
Vanessa was pre-med at her father and (Bush's) alma mater, Yale.
www.usatoday.com /life/people/2004-07-14-kerry-daughters_x.htm   (1624 words)

  
 PoliBlog: A Rough Draft of my Thoughts » Vanessa Kerry: Fulbrighter
Kerry’s daughters have talents and abilities in their own right and it seems to me to be overly critical of them serves no purpose.
Simply because Vanessa Kerry’s family has the money to pay for her to study in London for a semester does not mean that she is not entitled to every opportunity that everyone else is. A fulbright scholarship is based on one’s intelligence, and clearly Ms.
Kerry proved that she possessed the intelligence to be awarded such an honor without help from her family or friends.
www.poliblogger.com /index.php?p=4370   (948 words)

  
 Rockingham News: Vanessa Kerry rallies students
Vanessa Kerry opened the school’s Election 2004 rally with positive words for students.
Kerry related a story to the Sanborn students about a 17-year-old girl whom she met while on the campaign trail.
The girl told Kerry that although she was unable to vote she stirred her grandmother to vote, something the girl’s grandmother had not done in several years.
www.seacoastonline.com /2004news/rock/10292004/news/45723.htm   (569 words)

  
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Kerry's daughters by his first marriage say they have a feeling what it's like to be in the public spotlight from their father's Senate career, but they still have the luxury of being sufficiently anonymous that they're not recognized when they go out with friends, a luxury they know won't last much longer.
Vanessa Kerry said she was not buoyed much when Ron Reagan confided how his father's presidential campaign changed his life.
Vanessa said she still doesn't quite get the economics issue and she already disagrees with her father's stand on gay marriage: she supports the rights of gays to marry, while Kerry supports civil unions.
www.knoxstudio.com /shns/story.cfm?pk=DEMS-KERRYKIDS-07-27-04&cat=AN   (415 words)

  
 Bryn Mawr Now: Vanessa Kerry to Speak
Kerry, speaking at her third rally of the day (she earlier visited Villanova and West Chester Universities, and is scheduled to appear at the University of Pennsylvania tonight), urged students to vote and otherwise become involved in the political process.
Kerry has said that her decision to enter the field of global health was inspired by a trip she took to Vietnam with her father.
Vanessa Kerry, along with her older sister Alex, introduced John Kerry before he accepted the Democratic Party's presidential nomination at this summer's Democratic National Convention in Boston.
www.brynmawr.edu /news/2004-09-30/kerry.shtml   (349 words)

  
 Press Action ::: John Kerry’s Familial Envoy to the Left
Kerry is expected to choose a vice-presidential running mate who is unlikely to stir much enthusiasm among the democratic wing of the Democratic Party.
Vanessa Kerry will serve as the candidate’s ambassador to these groups in order to keep them energized about his candidacy during the next eight months as her father romances segments of the American right.
John Kerry is counting on Vanessa to keep the liberals and leftists from getting too restless or too interested in Ralph Nader’s ideas as he takes on the task of convincing the media and much of the electorate that he’s not a liberal and that he would keep America strong in the international arena.
www.pressaction.com /news/weblog/full_article/hand03042004   (521 words)

  
 New York Blade Online
A Kerry administration would also stop flat-funding the Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency Act, the federal funding community agencies rely on to provide services to those with HIV, Vanessa Kerry told those attending the conference of the National Association of People with AIDS on Sept. 10.
Kerry continued to stress “science not ideology” when asked how her father’s administration would approach HIV prevention, compared to the Bush administration’s focus on abstinence until marriage.
Kerry said her father — an original co-sponsor of the Ryan White CARE Act in 1990 — is committed to providing additional funding to ensure community HIV agencies are fully supported.
www.nyblade.com /print.cfm?content_id=1993   (1278 words)

  
 Dorm Storm
Vanessa Kerry said she feels that if her father is elected as president, his vision for the future and ability to look at the big picture to find viable, thoughtful and working solutions is what will make this country better.
Kerry was named an environmental hero by the League of Conservation Voters and was one of the chairmen on the planning committee for the first Earth Day.
Vanessa Kerry graduated from Yale in 1999 with a bachelor's degree in cellular development biology and is a third-year student at Harvard Medical School.
www.drake.edu /journalism/CyberCaucus2004/dormstorm.html   (886 words)

  
 Iowa Presidential Politics
Vanessa Kerry, a blonde who bears some of her father’s distinctive features, is taking a few months off from Harvard to campaign for her father.
John Kerry is “very engaged” and funnier than he comes off in the press, said Vanessa Kerry, adding that his serious persona is indicative of a deep commitment to the issues.
Although Kerry’s daughter and stepson have disrupted their ordinary lives to travel the country on his behalf, not all candidates' families are as active on the campaign trail.
www.iowapresidentialpolitics.com /latest/shuppykin.html   (1047 words)

  
 Express Gay News Online
Gaskill, 41, a resident of South Florida, is currently chief of staff for Alex and Vanessa Kerry, the children of Democratic presidential mominee John Kerry, and for Chris and Andre Hines, the children of Teresa Hines Kerry.
Vanessa Kerry even penned a column in the Advocate this summer describing her support for gay rights and her differences with her father on the marriage issue.
Vanessa Kerry, who is currently in medical school, has also represented her father at health care events.
www.expressgaynews.com /print.cfm?content_id=821   (873 words)

  
 Pipeline
At the mention of Vanessa Kerry, she let out this hurt but interested little, "Oh." The way she said it was like Vanessa Kerry was her friend, and she just found out that Vanessa Kerry had dissed something she was supposed to do with this girl just so she could go to this convention.
She was very dramatic, and I almost wish I'd made up a faux Vanessa Kerry phone survey right on the spot.
The Kerry campaign's organization leaves much to be desired here in Minnesota, based on my own experiences and a growing list of anecdotal evidence from people I don't know from Adam, but who have bad stories to tell nonetheless.
blogs.salon.com /0001739/2004/09/08.html   (1364 words)

  
 Slant Point: Vanessa Kerry Fulbright Scholarship   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
So Vanessa Kerry, daughter of John Kerry, won a Fulbright scholarship to practice medicine at the University of London.
A little ironic that Michelle Malkin is taking a stab at Vanessa Kerry considering her husband was a Rhodes Scholar.
Maybe Kerry's secret energy plan is to attach an electrical generator to the late Senator's corpse and run the electrical grid on all the power given off as he spins in his grave.
www.slantpoint.com /mt-arx/001723.html   (1348 words)

  
 Heinz/Kerry stepsiblings grew up with politics, face campaign on own terms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Vanessa Kerry, 27, a blond replica of her father, is in her third year of medical school and is planning to augment that with a master's degree in international relations, economics and health policy.
When Kerry and Heinz married in 1995, all of the children were either away at school or on their own, but they consciously tried to get to know one another as siblings, she adds.
Vanessa says her passions always have been medicine and science, even from her childhood days stirring up anthills in the garden and bringing frogs inside the house.
www.post-gazette.com /pg/04112/303747.stm   (2213 words)

  
 The Citizens Voice - News - 07/31/2004 - Heat, humidity take its toll on some in crowd   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
While presidential candidate John Kerry delivered a message Friday afternoon that "hope is on the way," his daughter showed that "help" also was available.
Kerry's introduction, 27-year-old Vanessa Kerry, a third-year Harvard University Medical School student, hurried off stage to aid a man who collapsed in the sweltering heat.
Kerry jumped from the stage and helped move the man to a nearby bench, where she waited with him for emergency personnel to arrive.
zwire.com /site/news.cfm?newsid=12556834&...&dept_id=455154&rfi=6   (538 words)

  
 Kerry-New Hampshire Visits
Kerry was the keynote speaker at the Granite State Chapter of the Association of the U.S. Army annual Soldier of the Year awards dinner at the Crowne Plaza in Nashua, NH on November 8, 2002.
Kerry keynoted the NH AFL-CIO convention in North Conway and was the special guest at the Merrimack County Democrats Harvest Dinner at Pembroke Academy in NH on October 13, 2001.
Kerry did two events in NH on August 5, 2001, a meet-and-greet for state representative candidate Mary Tetreau at Marilyn Hoffman's house in Londonderry (Kerry revealed his poetic skills, reading a poem of his own composition) and a fundraiser for Manchester Mayor Bob Baines at Donna Soucy's house in Manchester.
www.gwu.edu /~action/2004/kerry/kerrnh.html   (4136 words)

  
 The Kerry Kids - Newsweek Campaign 2004 - MSNBC.com
Cute in a CHICKS VOTE T shirt, Kerry's daughter Vanessa smacked a campaign sticker onto her bicep and joined the recent abortion-rights march in Washington, D.C. The 27-year-old chatted with Howard Dean and embraced Madeleine Albright.
Vanessa has taken a second leave from Harvard Medical School, where she's in her third year, but still reports to the hospital regularly.
When Vanessa was a freshman at Yale, a football player who spotted her walking across the quad called out, "You're the f---ing senator's daughter!" But having a friend there who understands, as she, Alex, Chris and Andre do now, makes all the difference.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/5505963/site/newsweek   (1784 words)

  
 Scholastic News:
Vanessa Kerry, 26, and Chris Heinz, 30, rushed into the John Kerry headquarters from the sub-zero temperatures in Manchester, New Hampshire, to sit down and talk with me and another member of the Scholastic Kid Press Corps about their father's candidacy for President.
Vanessa and Chris are currently working on Kerry's campaign full time: Vanessa is taking time off from Harvard Medical School, and Chris is on leave from his job.
John Kerry is one of the nine Democratic candidates running in the presidential primary elections.
teacher.scholastic.com /scholasticnews/indepth/kids_primaries/get_out_vote/index.asp?article=kerry   (459 words)

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