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Kathleen Hartington Kennedy Townsend (born July 4, 1951) is an American attorney who was the sixth Lieutenant Governor of Maryland from 1995 to 2003. She ran unsuccessfully for Governor of Maryland in 2002. In 2010 Townsend became the chair of the non-profit American Bridge, an organization whose focus is to raise funds for Democratic candidates and causes. She is a member of the Kennedy family. ==Early life, education, and law career== Townsend was born as Kathleen Hartington Kennedy in Greenwich, Connecticut, the eldest of Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Kennedy's 11 children, and the eldest grandchild of Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. and Rose Kennedy. She was named for her aunt, Kathleen Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington.〔''Hostage to Fortune'' by Joseph P. Kennedy, edited by Amanda Smith〕 It was not assumed that the girls in the politically oriented Kennedy family would run for office or become public persons, while she was growing up.〔 However, after her uncle President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, her father wrote her saying, "As the oldest of the next generation you have a particular responsibility. ... Be kind to others and work for your country." 〔 Her family gave her the nicknames "Clean Kathleen", "the Nun", and "the Un-Kennedy".〔 Over the summer of 1964, Kennedy won four blue ribbons for her "excellence in horsemanship".〔 On August 29, 1965, the fourteen-year-old Kennedy was somersaulted by her horse while competing at Sea Flash Farms in West Barnstable, Massachusetts. She was left unconscious and bleeding internally and was rushed to Cape Cod Hospital, located fifteen miles away. Her family was en route to Hyannis Port at the time of the incident and was not located for another three hours.〔Oppenheimer, pp. 380-381.〕 She was seventeen when her father was assassinated. The night he was shot at the Ambassador Hotel, Kennedy and her two eldest brothers, Joe and Robert, Jr., were being flown to Los Angeles aboard one of the jets in the Secret Service's presidential fleet named "the Jet Star".〔Oppenheimer, p. 453.〕 She spent most of her childhood in McLean, Virginia, and attended Stone Ridge School in nearby Bethesda, Maryland. She graduated from The Putney School in Vermont. She attended Radcliffe College, receiving her bachelor's degree in history and literature in 1974. She then studied at the University of New Mexico School of Law, receiving her Juris Doctor degree in 1978. For several years, she worked as an attorney in New Haven, Connecticut, while her husband attended Yale Law School. She also worked on her uncle Ted Kennedy's 1980 presidential campaign, stumped for local Democrats,〔 and was a policy analyst for the Massachusetts governor's office in the early 1980s. The family moved to Maryland, her husband's home state, in 1984. In 1986, Townsend became the first Kennedy to lose a general election when she ran for the U.S. House of Representatives in Maryland's strongly Republican second congressional district, using the name Townsend only.〔 Incumbent Republican Helen Delich Bentley defeated her 59% to 41%. She then went to work for the state government of Maryland, holding numerous posts including assistant Attorney General. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kathleen Kennedy Townsend」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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