AKA Maria Teresa Thierstein Simões-Ferreira

Born: 5-Oct-1938
Birthplace: Lourenço Marques, Mozambique

Gender: Female
Religion: Roman Catholic
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Relative
Party Affiliation: Democratic

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Wife of John Kerry

Net worth $1B (Forbes 2008).

Father: José Simões-Ferreira
Mother: Irene Thierstein (b. 1913, d. 1997)
Husband: John Heinz (US Senator, m. 5-Feb-1966, d. 4-Apr-1991)
Son: John Heinz IV (b. 1967)
Son: Andre Heinz (b. 1970)
Son: Christopher Drake Heinz (b. 1973)
Husband: John Kerry (US Senator, m. 26-May-1995)

    University: BA Romance Languages and Literature, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa (1960)
    University: MA, University of Geneva Interpreters School, Geneva, Switzerland (1963)

    Brookings Institution Trustee
    Friends of Dick Lugar
    Friends of Hillary
    Jefferson Awards Board of Selectors
    Obama for America
    Obama Victory Fund 2012
    United Negro College Fund
    Women's Campaign Forum
    Naturalized US Citizen 1971
    Mugged Georgetown
    Funeral: Ronald Reagan (2004)
    Portuguese Ancestry
    Risk Factors: Breast Cancer

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