Nancy Kissinger
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| Born | Nancy Sharon Maginnes April 13, 1934 New York City, U.S. |
| Died | August 20, 2026 (aged 92) South Kent, Connecticut, U.S. |
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| Occupation | Foreign policy specialist[1] |
| Height | 6 ft 0 in (183 cm) |
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Nancy Sharon Kissinger (née Maginnes; April 13, 1934 – August 20, 2026) was an American foreign policy specialist,[1] aide to New York governor Nelson Rockefeller, and the wife of U.S. secretary of state Henry Kissinger, who served in that role from 1973 to 1977. The couple was married on March 30, 1974, in Arlington, Virginia.[2]
Early life
[edit]Nancy Maginnes was born in Manhattan and raised in White Plains, New York. She attended The Masters School in Dobbs Ferry, New York. Her parents were Agnes (born McKinley) and Albert Bristol Maginnes, a wealthy lawyer and football player.[3]
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.[4]
Career
[edit]Before her marriage, she was a foreign policy aide to New York governor Nelson Rockefeller,[5] 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.[6] She later became director of international studies for Rockefeller's Commission on Critical Choices for Americans.[5]
Kissinger was notably one of the tallest female public figures of her era, at 6 ft 0 in (183 cm) tall.[7][8] In one newsreel of her accompanying Henry Kissinger during a 1975 meeting with Chinese Communist Party leadership, Mao Zedong looked with amazement at the height difference between the couple.[9]
Death
[edit]Kissinger died in South Kent, Connecticut on August 20, 2026, at the age of 92.[1]
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 McFadden, Robert D. (2026-08-20). "Nancy Kissinger, Wife of Former Secretary of State, Dies at 92". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2026-08-20.
- ↑ "Kissinger and Nancy Maginnes, Rockefeller Aide, Are Wed Near Capital and Fly to Acapulco for Honeymoon". New York Times. March 31, 1974. Archived from the original on October 19, 2012. Retrieved February 11, 2017.
- ↑ Isaacson, Walter (August 22, 1992). Kissinger: A Biography. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-0-671-66323-0 – via Google Books.
- ↑ Kissinger: 1923–1968: The Idealist by Niall Ferguson, Penguin Press, New York, 2015, p. 763.
- 1 2 "Nancy Kissinger Hospitalized with Undisclosed Ailment". Seattle Times. December 18, 1994. Archived from the original on April 17, 2025. Retrieved November 13, 2024.
- ↑ "Somebody to Come Home To". Time Magazine. April 8, 1974. Archived from the original on December 22, 2008.
- ↑ Cummings, Judith (1974-03-31). "The Bride: Tall, Quiet, Intellectual". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on 2023-12-11. Retrieved 2025-04-15.
- ↑ Wadler, Joyce (1982-06-11). "Nancy Kissinger Acquitted of Assault In 'Throttling' of Woman at Airport". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Archived from the original on 2023-11-30. Retrieved 2025-04-15.
- ↑ AP Archive (2015-07-23). SYND 22 10 75 KISSINGER MEETS MAO IN PEKING. Retrieved 2025-12-10 – via YouTube.
Further reading
[edit]- "Nancy Maginnes Kissinger." Almanac of Famous People, 9th ed. Thomson Gale, 2007. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Michigan: Gale, 2009. Gale - Institution Finder. Document Number: K1601047266. Fee, via Fairfax County Public Library. Accessed 2009-11-17
External links
[edit]- Interview on her visit with Bess W. Truman in 1975, in Independence, Missouri, with her husband (larger photo at the Wayback Machine (archived February 5, 2005))
- Nancy and father Albert Bristol Maginnes
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