Caroline Bouvier Kennedy is an American author, attorney, and diplomat serving as the United States ambassador to Australia since 2022. Kennedy previously served in the Obama administration as the United States ambassador to Japan from 2013 to 2017. She is a member of the Kennedy family, and the only surviving child of US president John F. Kennedy and first lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
Kennedy in 2022
Caroline with her father aboard the yacht Honey Fitz off the coast of Hyannis, Massachusetts at age five, August 25, 1963.
Caroline Kennedy (right) with her uncle, Senator Ted Kennedy, and President Gerald Ford in Concord, Massachusetts, April 1975
Caroline Kennedy in 1999
The Kennedy family is an American political family that has long been prominent in American politics, public service, entertainment, and business. In 1884, 35 years after the family's arrival from County Wexford, Ireland, Patrick Joseph "P. J." Kennedy became the first Kennedy elected to public office, serving in the Massachusetts state legislature until 1895. At least one Kennedy family member served in federal elective office from 1947, when P. J. Kennedy's grandson John F. Kennedy became a member of Congress from Massachusetts, until 2011, when Patrick J. Kennedy II retired as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Rhode Island.
Image: Patrick J. Kennedy
Image: Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. 1938 (cropped) (b)
Image: John F. Kennedy, White House color photo portrait (3x 4) (cropped)
Image: Caroline Kennedy, U.S. Ambassador 2 (cropped)