Caroline Bouvier Kennedy (born November 27, 1957)
Caroline is an American author and attorney. She is a member of the influential Kennedy family and the only living child of U.S. President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy.
At the time of her father’s presidency, she was a young child; after his assassination in 1963, her family settled in the Upper East Side of Manhattan, where she attended school. Caroline graduated from Radcliffe College and worked at New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she met her future husband, exhibit designer Edwin Schlossberg. She went on to receive a J.D. degree from Columbia Law School. Kennedy’s professional life has spanned law and politics as well as education and charitable work. She has also acted as a spokesperson for her family’s legacy and co-authored two books on civil liberties with Ellen Alderman.
In the 2008 presidential election, Caroline endorsed Democratic candidate Barack Obama for President early in the primary race; she later stumped for him in Orlando, Indiana, and Ohio, served as co-chair of his Vice Presidential Search Committee, and addressed the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver. After Obama’s selection of then-Senator Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State, Kennedy expressed interest in being appointed to Clinton’s vacant Senate seat from New York, but she later withdrew from consideration, citing “personal reasons”.
Caroline married Edwin Schlossberg in 1986, together they have three children, Rose Tatiana and John. Caroline and family were guests of honour at the official opening of the new Kennedy Homestead Visitor Centre in June 2013.
