Teresa Heinz Kerry

Maria Teresa Thierstein Simões-Ferreira Heinz Kerry (born October 5, 1938), is a philanthropist and the wife of U.S. Senator John Kerry.

Marriages and children

Heinz Kerry married future Pennsylvania U.S. Senator Henry John Heinz III of the Heinz family famous for their food products on February 5, 1966 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. A few years after the marriage, in 1971, she became a naturalized citizen of the United States. The couple had three sons: H. John Heinz IV (born 1967), Andre Heinz (born 1970) and Christopher Drake Heinz (born 1973).

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Henry John Heinz III - Heinz family - February 5 - 1966 - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania - 1971 - Naturalized citizen - H. John Heinz IV - 1967 - Andre Heinz - 1970 - Christopher Drake Heinz - 1973

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Heinz Kerry met John F. Kerry in 1990 at an Earth Day rally, after being introduced by Senator Heinz. This was the only known time that she and John Kerry met before the death of Senator Heinz. After Senator Heinz died in an airplane crash on April 4, 1991 in Pennsylvania, Heinz Kerry inherited his vast fortune. She and John Kerry ran into each other again at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1992 at the Earth Summit, which Ms. Heinz attended as a member of a State Department delegation appointed by President George H. W. Bush. Their courtship began in 1993, and they were married on May 26, 1995 on Nantucket, Massachusetts. This was also the second marriage for Senator Kerry.

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1990 - Earth Day - Airplane - April 4 - 1991 - Pennsylvania - Rio de Janeiro - Brazil - 1992 - Earth Summit - George H. W. Bush - 1993 - May 26 - 1995 - Nantucket, Massachusetts

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