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American philanthropist (born 1934)

Nancy Sharon Kissinger (néeMaginnes; born April 13, 1934) is an American philanthropist and Rockefeller political aide, and the widow of former U.S.

Secretary of StateHenry Kissinger.

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The couple married on March 30, 1974, in Arlington, Virginia.^[1]

Life and career

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.^[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 GovernorNelson 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 re