Nancy Kissinger

American philanthropist (born 1934)

Nancy Kissinger

Kissinger at the Metropolitan Opera season opening in September 2009

Born|

Nancy Sharon Maginnes

(1934-04-13) April 13, 1934 (age 91)

New York City, U.S.

Education|

* Mount Holyoke College (BA)
* Harvard University

Occupation| Philanthropist
Height| 6 ft 0 in (183 cm)
Spouse|

Henry Kissinger

(m. 1974; died 2023)​

Nancy Sharon Kissinger (née Maginnes; born April 13, 1934) is an American philanthropist and Rockefeller political aide, and the widow of former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. The couple married on March 30, 1974, in Arlington, Virginia.[1]

## Life and career

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Nancy and Henry Kissinger in their New York City apartment with their dog Tyler, 1978

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 Governor Nelson 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 researcher on a Rockefeller task force; she continued working for Rockefeller at the Rockefeller Brothers Fund after the task force finished its work.[4] She was notably one of the tallest female public figures of her era, at 6'0" (183cm) tall.[5][6] She later became director of international studies for Rockefeller's Commission on Critical Choices for Americans.[7]

## References

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1. ^ "Kissinger and Nancy Maginnes, Rockefeller Aide, Are Wed Near Capital and Fly to Acapulco for Honeymoon". New York Times. March 31, 1974.
2. ^ Kissinger: a biography, Walter Isaacson, Simon & Schuster, 1992
3. ^ Kissinger: 1923-1968: The Idealist by Niall Ferguson, Penguin Press, New York, 2015, p. 763.
4. ^ "Somebody to Come Home To". Time Magazine. April 8, 1974. Archived from the original on December 22, 2008.
5. ^ Cummings, Judith (1974-03-31). "The Bride: Tall, Quiet, Intellectual". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2025-04-15.
6. ^ Wadler, Joyce (1982-06-11). "Nancy Kissinger Acquitted of Assault In 'Throttling' of Woman at Airport". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2025-04-15.
7. ^ "Nancy Kissinger Hospitalized with Undisclosed Ailment". Seattle Times. December 18, 1994.

* "Nancy Maginnes Kissinger." Almanac of Famous People, 9th ed. Thomson Gale, 2007. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Michigan: Gale, 2009. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC. Document Number: K1601047266. Fee, via Fairfax County Public Library. Accessed 2009-11-17/

## External links

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* 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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