Eunice Kennedy Shriver

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Zurab Tsereteli with Eunice Kennedy Shriver (right)

Eunice Mary Kennedy Shriver (born July 10, 1921 in Brookline, Massachusetts), USA, is a member of the Kennedy family. Her father was Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., and her mother was Rose Kennedy. The fifth of nine children, she attended Manhattanville College in Purchase, NY. On May 23, 1953 she married Robert Sargent Shriver, Jr., who was U.S. ambassador to France from 1968 to 1970 and Democratic vice-presidential candidate in 1972. They had five children:

Robert Sargent Shriver III (b. April 28, 1954), Yale Law School graduate and former part-owner of Baltimore Orioles
Maria Owings Shriver (b. November 6, 1955), TV anchorwoman and wife of California's Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger
Timothy Perry Shriver (b. August 29, 1959), chairman of the Special Olympics
Mark Kennedy Shriver (b. February 17, 1964), Democratic politician who served as a member of the House of Delegates in the Maryland legislature for eight years. In 2002 made an unsuccessful bid for U.S. Congress
Anthony Paul Kennedy Shriver (b. July 20, 1965), activist for the mentally retarded and chairman of Best Buddies International, a friendship program for people with intellectual disabilities.

Shriver actively campaigned for her older brother John F. Kennedy and supported Arnold Schwarzenegger's successful bid for governor of California in 2003. She helped Ann McGlone Burke nationalize the Special Olympics movement in 1968 and is the only living woman whose portrait appears on a U.S. coin, the 1995 commemorative Special Olympics Silver Dollar. Shriver grew up and owns a home in the fabled Kennedy Compound. Upon the death of Rosemary Kennedy on January 7, 2005, Eunice Kennedy became the oldest surviving child of Joseph and Rose Kennedy.

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