Richard kerry biography

Richard John Kerry (July 28, 1915 – July 29, 2000) was an American Foreign Service officer and lawyer.!

Richard Kerry

American Foreign Service officer

Richard John Kerry (July 28, 1915 – July 29, 2000) was an American Foreign Service officer and lawyer.

Richard John Kerry was an American Foreign Service officer and lawyer.

Richard John Kerry was born July 28, 1915.

Richard John Kerry (July 28, 1915 – July 29, 2000) was an American Foreign Service officer and lawyer.

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He was the father of politicians John Kerry and Cameron Kerry.

Early life

Kerry was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, to shoe merchant Frederick A. "Fred" Kerry and musician Ida Löwe, both immigrants from Austria.

He had an elder brother Eric (born c. 1901) and an elder sister Mildred (born 1910). Fred and Ida had changed their names from "Fritz and Ida Kohn" to "Frederick and Ida Kerry" in 1900 and converted from Judaism to Catholicism in 1901^[1]^[2] or 1902.^[3] They were baptized at the same time as Eric.

Fred's brother Otto also embraced Catholicism and took on the "Kerry" name.^[2]^[4] The "Kerry" name, widely misinterpreted as indicative of Irish heritage, was reputedly selected arbitrarily: "According to family legend, Fritz and another family member opened an atlas