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Jean Ann Kennedy Smith (February 20, 1928 - June 17, 2020) was an American diplomat, activist, humanitarian, and author who served as United States Ambassador to Ireland from 1993 to 1998. She was a member of the Kennedy family, the youngest daughter, and the eighth child of Joseph P. Kennedy and Rose Fitzgerald. Her siblings included President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and Senator Edward M. Kennedy. Born in Massachusetts, on her elder sister Kathleen's eighth birthday, the youngest Kennedy girl was the shyest and most guarded of the Kennedy children. She attended Manhattanville College where she befriended her future sisters-in-law Ethel Skakel and Joan Bennett. She graduated from Manhattanville in 1949. Jean was intricately involved with the political career of her older brother John. She worked on his 1946 congressional campaign, his 1952 Senate campaign, and, ultimately, his presidential campaign in 1960. She and her siblings helped John knock on doors in primary states such as Texas and Wisconsin. In 1956, she married businessman Stephen Edward Smith. The couple had two biological sons: Stephen Jr. and William, and later they adopted two daughters, Amanda and Kym. In 1993, President Bill Clinton appointed Jean the U.S. Ambassador to Ireland, continuing a legacy of diplomacy begun by her father. As ambassador, she played a pivotal role in the Northern Ireland peace process, and was instrumental in the Northern Ireland peace process as President Bill Clinton's representative in Dublin. President of Ireland Mary McAleese conferred honorary Irish citizenship on Jean in 1998, in recognition of her service to the country. In 1974, she founded Very Special Arts (VSA), an internationally recognized non-profit organization dedicated to creating a society where people with disabilities can engage with the arts. It provides arts and education programming for youth and adults with disabilities. Jean traveled throughout the world on behalf of VSA to advocate for greater inclusion in the arts for people with disabilities. Her book, Chronicles of Courage: Very Special Artists, co-written with George Plimpton, was published by Random House in April 1993. In 2011, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor in the United States. Jean won several awards for her work in Ireland and in the disability community. In 2007, she received the Gold Medal Award from the Éire Society of Boston for her peace efforts in Northern Ireland and for her humanitarian work with disabled children. In 2009, she and Ted Kennedy were honored with the Tipperary Peace Prize for their support of the peace process in Northern Ireland. In March 2011, Jean was inducted into Irish America magazine's Irish America Hall of Fame, and published The Nine of Us: Growing Up Kennedy, a memoir of the Kennedy clan five years later. She died at her home in Manhattan on June 17, 2020, at the age of 92. She was the last surviving, and the longest-lived of the nine Kennedy children.