Kathleen Kennedy Townsend

Kathleen Kennedy Townsend ( born July 4, 1951 in Greenwich, Connecticut ) is an American politician (Democratic Party).

Life

Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, the eldest of eleven children of the 1968 killed in an attack U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy and his wife Ethel. Your own political career began in 1986 with the candidacy for the U.S. House of Representatives in the second congressional district of the state of Maryland, but she succumbed to the Republican Helen Delich Bentley. Subsequently, she held various positions in the state government, including as Deputy Attorney General of Maryland. After she was in 1992 a member of the Electoral College, the Bill Clinton elected as the new U.S. president, she then worked even in the government as Deputy Assistant Attorney General.

She was from 1995 to 2003 on the side of Governor Parris Glendening as Deputy Governor of Maryland operates. In 2002, she applied herself unsuccessfully for the office of Governor. The election was won by Republican Robert L. Ehrlich. He scored 51.6 percent of the vote, Townsend came to 47.7 percent. Thus, the Republicans won for the first time after 35 years again a gubernatorial election in Maryland.

In advance of the 2008 presidential election Kathleen Kennedy Townsend assisted with her brother Robert, the Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton. Her cousin Caroline and her uncle Edward had spoken out for the later victorious Barack Obama.

Kathleen Kennedy Townsend lives with her ​​husband David, a professor at St. John 's College, Annapolis. The two have four daughters.