Jean Kennedy Smith, the last surviving sibling of President John F. Kennedy and a former ambassador to Ireland, has died at age 92.
The Associated Press
Smith was the eighth of nine children born to Joseph and Rose Kennedy, and tragically outlived several of them by decades. Though she never ran for office, Smith campaigned for her brothers, traveling the country for then-Sen. John F. Kennedy as he sought the presidency in 1960. Diplomacy, like politics, ran in the Kennedy family. Smith’s father was ambassador to the United Kingdom from 1938 to 1940; niece Caroline Kennedy served as ambassador to Japan during the Obama administration.
In 1994, Smith helped persuade Clinton to grant a controversial visa to Gerry Adams, chief of the Irish Republican Army-linked Sinn Fein party. The move defied the British government, which branded Adams as a terrorist. Smith, who later received Irish citizenship for “distinguished service to the nation," worked tirelessly to strengthen the “enduring links” between the two nations, the U.S. Embassy in Dublin said Thursday.
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