Nancy Kissinger

Nancy Sharon Kissinger (born Maginnes; born April 13, 1934) is an American philanthropist, and the wife of former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. The couple married on March 30, 1974, in Arlington, Virginia.[1]

Nancy Kissinger
Nancy Kissinger at the Metropolitan Opera opening in 2009
Born
Nancy Sharon Maginnes

(1934-04-13) April 13, 1934
New York City, New York, U.S.
EducationMount Holyoke College (B.A., History, 1955)
Harvard University
OccupationPhilanthropist
Spouse(s)Henry Kissinger (m. 1974)

Life and career

Kissinger was born in Manhattan and raised in White Plains, New York. Her parents were Agnes (born McKinley) and Albert Bristol Maginnes, a wealthy lawyer and football player.[2] She received a B.A. in history in 1955 from Mount Holyoke College.

Before her marriage, she was a long-time aide to New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller, recommended to him in 1964 by her future husband, then a professor at Harvard, where she was a student. Her first job was as Professor Kissinger's researcher on a Rockefeller task force; she continued working for Rockefeller at the Rockefeller Brothers Fund after the task force finished its work.[3] She later became director of international studies for Rockefeller's Commission on Critical Choices for Americans.[4]

References
  1. "Kissinger and Nancy Maginnes, Rockefeller Aide, Are Wed Near Capital and Fly to Acapulco for Honeymoon". New York Times. March 31, 1974.
  2. Kissinger: a biography, Walter Isaacson, Simon & Schuster, 1992
  3. "Somebody to Come Home To". Time Magazine. April 8, 1974.
  4. "Nancy Kissinger Hospitalized with Undisclosed Ailment". Seattle Times. December 18, 1994.


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