John Forbes Kerry is an American politician and diplomat. He served as the 68th United States Secretary of State from 2013 to 2017. Kerry served as a decorated Vietnam veteran and anti-war activist. He was the Democratic nominee for President of the United States in 2004. Kerry has remained active in public affairs as a vocal opponent of Republican President Donald Trump.
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John Forbes Kerry is an American politician and diplomat. He served as the 68th United States Secretary of State from 2013 to 2017. Kerry served as a decorated Vietnam veteran and anti-war activist. He was the Democratic nominee for President of the United States in 2004. Kerry has remained active in public affairs as a vocal opponent of Republican President Donald Trump and as a supporter of Joe Biden. He will serve as the U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate in the Biden administration. Kerry was born on December 11, 1943, at Fitzsimons Army Medical Center in Aurora, Colorado. His father was Richard Kerry, a Foreign Service officer and lawyer, and his mother was Rose Forbes, a nurse and social activist. Kerry grew up as a military brat in Massachusetts and Washington, D. C., before attending boarding school in New Hampshire and Massachusetts. In 1966, after graduating from Yale University, Kerry enlisted in the US Naval Reserve, ultimately attaining the rank of lieutenant. In 1972, Kerry entered electoral politics as a Democratic candidate for the US House of Representatives in Massachusetts’ 5th congressional district. He won the Democratic nomination but was defeated in the general election by his Republican opponent. In 1982, Kerry was elected Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts, before serving as United States Senator from Massachusetts from 1985 to 2013. He led hearings investigating narcotics trafficking in Latin America, which exposed aspects of the Iran–Contra affair. Kerry initiated the 2013–2014 Israeli–Palestinian peace talks and negotiated landmark agreements restricting the nuclear program of Iran, including the 2013 Joint Plan of Action and the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of action.
In 2015, Kerry signed the Paris Agreement on climate change on behalf of theUnited States. Kerry is married to former Massachusetts Governor Deirdre DeWitt. He is the father of four children, including a younger sister named Diana Margaret, a younger brother named Cameron, and an elder sister named Margaret Margaret, who was named after her mother’s maiden name, Rose Forbes. Kerry’s father served as an altar boy until his father was discharged from the Navy’s General Counsel and became a diplomat in the State Department’s Office of the General Counsel in the 1950s and 1960s. In his first year of law school, Kerry served in the Massachusetts State Senate as a prosecutor and later as the First Assistant District Attorney of Middlesex County, where he tried criminal cases and managed the district attorney’s office. In 1984, he was elected to the Senate and served until 2009, when he was reelected to additional terms in 1990, 1996, 2002 and 2008. In 2009, Kerry chaired the Committee on Foreign Relations from 2009 to 2013, and was confirmed by his Senate colleagues on a vote of 94–3. Kerry campaigned as a critic of President George W. Bush’s prosecution of the Iraq War and advocated a liberal domestic policy. He lost the Electoral College and the popular vote by narrow margins, winning 251 electors to Bush’s 286 and 48. 3% of the popularVote to Bush in the 2004 election.
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