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Robert Sargent Shriver Jr. was born in Westminster, Maryland, the younger of two sons. Shriver's parents Robert Sargent Shriver Sr. and Hilda, who had also been born with the surname Shriver, were second cousins. [5] His elder brother was Thomas Herbert Shriver.
Nov 19, 2023 · While Maria Shriver's mother, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, is known for founding of the Special Olympics, her father Sargent Shriver was also heavily involved in the organization. In fact, he became the organization's president in 1984, and then later became Chairman of the Board in 1990.
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Shriver was born in Chicago, Illinois, on November 6, 1955, the second child of politician Sargent Shriver and activist Eunice Kennedy. She is a niece of the late U.S. president John F. Kennedy, U.S. attorney general and U.S. senator Robert F. Kennedy, U.S. senator Ted Kennedy, and six other siblings.
Sargent Shriver was a Kennedy in-law and former presidential candidate who launched the Peace Corps, Vista, Head Start and the Job Corps.
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Jan 18, 2011 · But perhaps the purest representative of that era of Big Government idealism was a brother-in-law, Sargent Shriver, who died Tuesday, Jan. 18, at a hospital in Maryland at age 95.