R. SARGENT SHRIVER

35. KENNEDY
36. JOHNSON
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FULL NAME:
Robert Sargent Shriver Jr.

BORN:
November 9, 1915,
Westminster, Maryland

DIED:
January 18, 2011 (age 95)
Bethesda, Maryland

EDUCATION:
Yale University (BA, JD)

POLITICAL PARTY:
Democrat

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS:
1961-1966:
First Director of the Peace Corps
1964-1968:
Director of the Office of Economic Opportunity 
1968-1970:
U.S. Ambassador to France
1972:
Democratic Nominee for Vice President 

PORTRAIT:

JFK Library Photo

RESOURCES:

8/28/1961:  President John Kennedy, Director of the Peace Corps R. Sargent Shriver and others in the West Wing Colonnade (National Archives)

BIOGRAPHIES:
JFK Library
Biography
Wikipedia
Sargent Shriver Peace Institute

PAPERS:
JFK Library

MEDIA COVERAGE:

Sargent Shriver gets the “Johnson Treatment” from President Lyndon B. Johnson (right) on June 13, 1968. (LBJ Library Photo)

VP NOMINATION (8/9/1972)
New York Times
Time
Atlantic

OBITUARIES (1/18/2011)
Washington Post
New York Times
New Yorker
Boston Globe
Atlantic