Nancy Sharon Kissinger (née Maginnes; born April 13, 1934) is an American philanthropist and Rockefeller political aide, and the widow of former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. The couple married on March 30, 1974, in Arlington, Virginia.[1]
Nancy Kissinger
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Kissinger at the Metropolitan Opera season opening in September 2009
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| Born | Nancy Sharon Maginnes (1934-04-13) April 13, 1934 (age 90)
New York City, U.S.
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| Occupation | Philanthropist |
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(m. 1974; died 2023) |
Nancy Maginnes was born in Manhattan and raised in White Plains, New York. She attended The Masters SchoolinDobbs Ferry, 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 and later took a sabbatical from her Rockefeller research job to study at the Sorbonne in the late 1960s.[3]
Before her marriage, she was a long-time aide to New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller, recommended to him in 1964 by Kissinger, then a professor at Harvard, where she was a student. Her first job was as 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.[4] She later became director of international studies for Rockefeller's Commission on Critical Choices for Americans.[5]
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