Nancy Kissinger

Nancy Kissinger
Nancy Kissinger at the Metropolitan Opera opening in 2009
Born Nancy Sharon Maginnes
(1934-04-13) April 13, 1934
Manhattan
Nationality American
Education Mount Holyoke College
Occupation Philanthropist
Spouse(s)
Henry Kissinger (m. 1974)
Children 2

Nancy Sharon Kissinger (née 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]

Life and career

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

She was a long-time aide to New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller before her marriage, 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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