John Forbes Kerry Net Worth
John Forbes Kerry Net Worth is
$1.1 Million
John Forbes Kerry Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
John Forbes Kerry (born December 11, 1943) is an American politician who is the 68th and current United States Secretary of State. He has served in the United States Senate, and was chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Kerry was the candidate of the Democratic Party in the 2004 presidential election but lost to George W. Bush. Kerry was born in Aurora, Colorado and attended boarding school in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. He graduated from Yale University class of 1966 with a political science major, and was a member of the Skull and Bones secret society. Kerry enlisted in the Naval Reserve in 1966, and during 1968–1969 served an abbreviated four-month tour of duty in South Vietnam as officer-in-charge (OIC) of a Swift Boat. For that service, he was awarded combat medals that include the Silver Star, Bronze Star, and three Purple Hearts. Securing an early return to the United States, Kerry joined the Vietnam Veterans Against the War in which he served as a nationally recognized spokesman and as an outspoken opponent of the Vietnam War. He appeared before the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs where he deemed United States war policy in Vietnam to be the cause of "war crimes."After receiving his J.D. from Boston College Law School, Kerry worked as an Assistant District Attorney. He served as Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts under Michael Dukakis from 1983 to 1985. He won a the Democratic primary in 1984 for the U.S. Senate and was sworn in the following January. On the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, he led a series of hearings from 1987 to 1989 which were a precursor to the Iran–Contra affair. Kerry was reelected to additional terms in 1990, 1996, 2002, and 2008. In 2002, Kerry voted to authorize the President "to use force, if necessary, to disarm Saddam Hussein", but warned that the administration should exhaust its diplomatic avenues before launching war. In his 2004 presidential campaign, Kerry criticized George W. Bush for the Iraq War. He and his running mate Senator John Edwards lost the race, finishing 35 electoral votes behind Bush-Cheney. Subsequently, he established the Keeping America's Promise PAC. Kerry became chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 2009. Having been nominated by President Barack Obama to succeed outgoing Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and then confirmed by the U.S. Senate by a vote of 94–3 on January 29, 2013, Kerry assumed the office on February 1, 2013. Full Name | John Kerry |
Net Worth | $200 million |
Date Of Birth | December 11, 1943 |
Place Of Birth | Aurora, Colorado, U.S. |
Height | 6' 4" (1.93 m) |
Profession | Actor, Camera Department, Miscellaneous Crew |
Education | Boston College Law School |
Nationality | American |
Spouse | Julia Thorne |
Children | John, Christopher, André |
Parents | Rosemary Forbes Kerry, Richard Kerry |
Siblings | Cameron Kerry, Diana Kerry, Margerie Kerry |
Awards | Purple Heart, Silver Star, Bronze Star Medal |
Music Groups | The Electras |
Movies | The Lake Effect, Frost/Nixon, Venus Rising, Top Dog, Nowhere to Run, Memorial Valley Massacre, Bad Georgia Road, Airport '77 |
Star Sign | Sagittarius |
# | Quote |
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1 | [dismissing the views of climate-change skeptics, 2014] We don't have time for a meeting anywhere of the Flat Earth Society. |
2 | [on chemical weapons use in Syria in 2013] Anyone who could claim that an attack of this staggering scale could be contrived or fabricated needs to check their conscience and their own moral compass. |
3 | In America, you have the right to be stupid. |
4 | You know, education, if you make the most of it, if you study hard and do your homework, and you make an effort to be smart, uh, you can do well. If you don't, you get stuck in Iraq. Campaign speech, October 30, 2006. |
5 | Regime change has been an American policy under the Clinton administration, and it is the current policy. I support the policy. |
6 | It is clear that in the four years since the UNSCOM inspectors were forced out, Saddam Hussein has continued his quest for weapons of mass destruction. |
7 | I have said publicly for years that weapons of mass destruction in the hands of Saddam Hussein pose a real and grave threat to our security and that of our allies in the Persian Gulf region. Saddam Hussein's record bears this out. |
8 | We should not go to war because these things are in his past, but we should be prepared to go to war because of what they tell us about the future. |
9 | I actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted against it. |
10 | "I think 9/11 was the predominant overriding element. And I think that in the end, an awful lot of people were unwilling to switch commander-in-chief in midstream. And it just came down to, sort of, that perception." (Imus in the Morning, February 7, 2005 - on why he believes he lost the 2004 presidential election) |
11 | I am John Kerry and I am reporting for duty. |
12 | If the American people give me a shot at George Bush next November, I will give them back the White House. |
13 | It's full speed ahead, and we're not playing cautious here. I'm going to take the fight to George Bush. We must take nothing for granted, but in November we will beat George W. Bush. |
14 | On Bush's war in Iraq - "He did it in the worst possible way - without the United Nations, without our allies and without a plan to win the peace." |
# | Fact |
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1 | Had brief romance with Catherine Oxenberg between the marriages. |
2 | Narrowly defeated in his bid for President of The United States. [November 2004] |
3 | Member of 2011 Debt Super Committee (i.e. Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction). |
4 | Chairman, U.S. Senate Foreign Relations committee. |
5 | Favorite songs: "No Surrender" and "Born to Run" by Bruce Springsteen, "Hey Jude" by The Beatles, "I Can't Get No Satisfaction" by The Rolling Stones. |
6 | Stepfather of André Heintz, Chris Heinz and John Heinz IV. |
7 | Announced in January 2007 he would not be a candidate for president again in 2008, as previously speculated. |
8 | Very good friends with Republican senior senator from Arizona John McCain. |
9 | Underwent surgery for prostate cancer in February 2003. |
10 | Played bass for a garage band called The Electras while in private school. |
11 | Narrowly lost the state of Ohio by about 60,000 votes. Had he won Ohio, he would have won the presidency. |
12 | Is of Welsh, French, Irish, Austrian, and possibly Norwegian descent. |
13 | Lost to President George W. Bush by over 3.5 million votes on Nov. 2, 2004. |
14 | Played lacrosse when he was younger. |
15 | Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts (1983-1985). |
16 | According to Harold Brooks-Baker, director of Burke's Peerage (the "Bible" of the European royal families) Kerry is related to the Queen of England on his mother's side, but also to the Queen of the Netherlands, the Queen of Denmark and the King of Norway, as well as other European royal families. Even the late Diana, the Princess of Wales, was a distant relative. |
17 | Has his look-alike puppet in the French show Les guignols de l'info (1988). |
18 | Announced John Edwards as his Vice Presidential Candidate in the 2004 Presidential Election (2004). |
19 | He and his competition George W. Bush share an ancestor on Kerry's mother's side and Bush's father's side from the 1600s. |
20 | Kerry's paternal grandparents, born Fritz Kohn and Ida Löwe, were Jewish immigrants from Central Europe (Bennisch, Austria and Budapest, Hungary), who converted to Catholicism (still Kerry's faith). By all accounts a brilliant, bizarre, and troubled man, Kerry's paternal grandfather eventually ended his own life. Kerry's mother had English, Scottish, Northern Irish, Dutch, Welsh, and extremely remote French, ancestry. |
21 | Plays the guitar. |
22 | 9th cousin twice removed of George W. Bush, his rival in the 2004 election. Both are descended from Edmund Reade (1563-1623). |
23 | Interesting note: his initials are "JFK." |
24 | Speaks French fluently in addition to some Norwegian. |
25 | Became the presumptive Democratic Nominee for President in 2004 after defeating North Carolina Senator John Edwards, Vermont Governor Howard Dean and Wesley Clark. |
26 | His second wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, is the widow of Pennsylvania Senator Henry John Heinz III of the Heinz Foods fortune. The couple's combined net worth is reportedly $199 - $839 million, making Kerry the wealthiest U.S. senator. Heinz and Kerry met in 1990, introduced by Senator Heinz. |
27 | On 18 February 1966, despite his opposition to the Vietnam War, Kerry enlisted in the Navy. He was wounded during his first combat experience on 2 December 1968 and was awarded a Purple Heart. On 20 February 1969, he earned a second Purple Heart when his left thigh was hit with shrapnel. On 28 February 1969, his boat was hit by a B-40 rocket. He beached the boat, chased down the fleeing wounded Viet Cong who fired the rocket, killed him, and returned with the rocket and its launcher. He was awarded the Silver Star. On 13 March 1969, Kerry's boat detonated a mine and he was wounded. For that, and rescuing Army Green Beret James Rassmann in the same incident, he was awarded a third Purple Heart and the Bronze Star with Combat V. |
28 | Became a member of Yale University's Skull and Bones secret society three years before George W. Bush joined the same group. |
29 | Born at Fitzsimmons Army Hospital where his father, Richard, a test pilot for the Army Air Corps, was undergoing treatment for tuberculosis. |
30 | The liberal American politician is cousin to a French politician (former Minister of Environment and candidate in 1981 presidential election), Brice Lalonde of Génération Ecologie, a small right-wing ecology movement. Their mothers (Rosemary for J. Kerry, Fiona for B. Lalonde) were sisters. |
31 | Because his father worked at the US Embassy in Oslo, Norway, Kerry lived in the Norwegian capital a couple of years from the age of 13. To this day he still remembers some Norwegian. |
32 | Father of Alexandra Kerry (b. 1973) and Vanessa Kerry (b. 1976). |
33 | U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, 1985-present. |
Actor
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Cheers | 1992 | TV Series | Senator John Kerry |
Camera Department
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Diary of a Political Tourist | 2004 | TV Movie documentary additional camera operator |
Miscellaneous
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Vietnam: A Television History | 1983 | TV Series documentary film archive - 1 episode |
Thanks
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Cool It | 2010 | Documentary appreciation for his appearance | |
Vietnam Long Time Coming | 1998 | Documentary special thanks - as Senator John Kerry |
Self
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Crashing the States | Documentary post-production | Himself | |
Before the Flood | 2016 | Documentary | Himself |
Weekend Today | 2016 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
Meet the Press | 1971-2016 | TV Series | Himself / Himself - U.S. Secretary of State / Himself - Senator, Massachusetts |
This Week | 2006-2016 | TV Series | Himself - U.S. Secretary of State / Himself / Himself - Secretary of State |
Channel 4 News | 2016 | TV Series | Himself - U.S. Secretary of State |
Inside Obama's White House | 2016 | TV Mini-Series documentary | Himself |
Face the Nation | 2005-2016 | TV Series | Himself - U.S. Secretary of State / Himself |
Jimmy Kimmel Live! | 2016 | TV Series | Himself |
Fox News Sunday | 2014-2015 | TV Series | Himself - U.S. Secretary of State |
20 heures le journal | 2015 | TV Series | Himself |
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert | 2015 | TV Series | Himself - U.S. Secretary of State |
The Daily Show | 2004-2015 | TV Series | Himself |
State of the Union with Jake Tapper | 2015 | TV Series | Himself |
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe White House Arrival Ceremony | 2015 | TV Movie | Himself (uncredited) |
CNN Newsroom | 2015 | TV Series | Himself - U.S. Secretary of State / Himself - United States Secretary of State |
The Diplomat | 2015 | Documentary | |
BBC Weekend News | 2015 | TV Series | Himself / Himself - Speech Giver (US Secretary of State) |
Tagesschau | 2015 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
CNN NewsCenter | 2015 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
CBS This Morning | 2014 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
Today | 2014 | TV Series | Himself - U.S. Secretary of State |
Uvda | 2014 | TV Series | Himself - U.S. Secretary of State |
60 Minutes | 2004-2013 | TV Series documentary | Himself - Secretary of State (segment "The Secretary of State") / Himself - Senator, Massachusetts (segment "Kerry & Edwards") / Himself - Senator, Massachusetts (segment "John Kerry") |
Hardball with Chris Matthews | 2004-2012 | TV Series | Himself |
Frontline | 2012 | TV Series documentary | Himself - (D) Massachusetts |
Piers Morgan Tonight | 2011 | TV Series | Himself |
If God Is Willing and da Creek Don't Rise | 2010 | TV Mini-Series documentary | Himself |
Larry King Live | 2004-2010 | TV Series | Himself |
Climate Refugees | 2010 | Documentary | Himself |
'Hick' Town | 2009 | Documentary | Himself |
The MoveOn.org Story | 2009 | Documentary | |
A Man Among Giants | 2008 | Documentary | |
IFC News: 2008 Uncut | 2008 | TV Series | Himself |
W. | 2008/I | Himself (uncredited) | |
Free for All! | 2008 | Documentary | Himself |
Entertainment Tonight | 2008 | TV Series | Himself |
How Ohio Pulled It Off | 2008 | Documentary | Himself |
Swing State | 2008 | Documentary | |
Honk for Peace | 2007 | Documentary | Himself |
20 on 20 | 2007 | TV Movie | Himself |
The Colbert Report | 2007 | TV Series | Himself |
18 in '08 | 2007 | Documentary short | Senator John Kerry |
Swing State Ohio | 2006 | Video documentary | Himself |
Texas Monthly Talks | 2006 | TV Series | Himself - Interviewee |
Real Time with Bill Maher | 2006 | TV Series | Himself |
...So Goes the Nation | 2006 | Documentary | Himself |
Al Franken: God Spoke | 2006 | Documentary | Himself (as Senator John Kerry) |
The Young Turks | 2005 | TV Series | Himself (2009) |
Nice Try | 2005 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt | 2005 | TV Series | Himself |
Missing, Presumed Dead: The Search for America's POWs | 2005 | Documentary | |
Ohio: The Next Florida | 2005 | Video documentary short | Himself |
Inside the U.S. Secret Service | 2004 | TV Movie documentary | Himself - Senator and 2004 Democratic Presidential Candidate |
Winning New Hampshire | 2004 | Documentary | Himself |
Paula Zahn Now | 2003-2004 | TV Series | Himself |
2004 Presidential Debates | 2004 | TV Mini-Series | Himself |
Diary of a Political Tourist | 2004 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
America Speaks Out | 2004 | Documentary | Himself |
Tanner on Tanner | 2004 | TV Series | Himself |
Good Morning America | 2004 | TV Series | Himself |
Live with Kelly and Michael | 2004 | TV Series | Himself |
Late Show with David Letterman | 2004 | TV Series | Himself |
ABC World News Tonight with David Muir | 2004 | TV Series | Himself |
Brian Williams Reports: John Kerry: Bringing the War Home | 2004 | Documentary | Himself |
Tavis Smiley | 2004 | TV Series | Himself |
BBC World News | 2004 | TV Series | Himself - Democratic Presidential Candidate |
PBS NewsHour | 2004 | TV Series | Himself - Democratic Presidential Candidate |
This Hour Has 22 Minutes | 2004 | TV Series | Himself |
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno | 2003 | TV Series | Himself |
Brothers in Arms | 2003 | Himself | |
Beyond the Spin | 2003 | Video documentary | Himself |
Independent Lens | 2003 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
The O'Reilly Factor | 2001 | TV Series | Himself |
Last Party 2000 | 2001 | Documentary | Himself (as Sen. John Kerry) |
Biography | 1996 | TV Series documentary | Himself - U.S. Senator |
Vietnam: Coming to Terms | 1995 | TV Movie documentary | Himself - Senator, Massachusetts |
Dennis Miller Live | 1994 | TV Series | Himself |
The Last Party | 1993 | Documentary | Himself (as Sen. John Kerry) |
Saturday Night Live: 15th Anniversary | 1989 | TV Special | Himself - Audience Member (uncredited) |
The Secret Government: The Constitution in Crisis | 1987 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
Vietnam: A Television History | 1983 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
Winter Soldier | 1972 | Documentary | Himself |
The Dick Cavett Show | 1970-1971 | TV Series | Himself |
NET Journal | 1966 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
Archive Footage
Title | Year | Status | Character |
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Dispatches | 2016 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
The Empire Files | 2016 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
Truth | 2015 | Himself (uncredited) | |
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon | 2015 | TV Series | Himself - Speech in Spanish |
CNN Newsroom | 2014 | TV Series | Himself - US Immigrations Plan |
Kill the Messenger | 2014 | Himself (uncredited) | |
Frontline | 2005-2014 | TV Series documentary | Himself - U.S. Secretary of State / Himself |
Media Buzz | 2014 | TV Series | Himself - U.S. Sec. of State |
Stop at Nothing: The Lance Armstrong Story | 2014 | Documentary | Himself (uncredited) |
Piers Morgan Tonight | 2014 | TV Series | Himself |
Crossfire | 2013-2014 | TV Series | Himself |
The Colbert Report | 2014 | TV Series | Himself |
Eretz Nehederet | 2014 | TV Series | Himself |
Democracy Now! | 2013 | TV Series | Himself |
Our Nixon | 2013 | Documentary | Himself |
Terms and Conditions May Apply | 2013 | Documentary | Himself - Senator, Massachusetts |
American Masters | 2012 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
Cool It | 2010 | Documentary | Himself - Senator, Massachusette |
Glenn Beck | 2009 | TV Series | Himself - Massachusetts Senator |
Hype: The Obama Effect | 2008 | Video documentary | Himself |
The O'Reilly Factor | 2008 | TV Series | Himself / Himself (segment "Reality Check") / Himself - Massachusetts Senator |
Burning the Future: Coal in America | 2008 | Documentary | Himself |
Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson | 2008 | Documentary | Himself - Thompson Memorial Attendee (uncredited) |
Slacker Uprising | 2007 | Documentary | Himself |
Unborn in the USA: Inside the War on Abortion | 2007 | Documentary | Himself |
Blue State | 2007 | Himself (uncredited) | |
Run Granny Run | 2007 | Documentary | Himself |
Manufacturing Dissent | 2007 | Documentary | Himself |
Corazón de... | 2005 | TV Series | Himself |
The Sixties: The Years That Shaped a Generation | 2005 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
National Geographic: Inside 9/11 | 2005 | TV Mini-Series documentary | Himself |
This Divided State | 2005 | Documentary | Himself |
Über Galgen wächst kein Gras | 2005 | Video documentary | Himself |
NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt | 2005 | TV Series | Himself |
Letter to the President | 2005 | Video documentary | Himself |
Martial Law 9/11: Rise of the Police State | 2005 | Documentary | Himself |
Last Laugh '04 | 2004 | TV Movie | Himself |
Hardball with Chris Matthews | 2004 | TV Series | Himself |
Celsius 41.11: The Temperature at Which the Brain... Begins to Die | 2004 | Documentary | Himself |
The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear | 2004 | TV Mini-Series documentary | Himself |
Stolen Honor: Wounds That Never Heal | 2004 | Documentary short | Himself (uncredited) |
Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry | 2004 | Documentary | Himself |
Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism | 2004 | Documentary | Himself |
Oil on Ice | 2004 | Documentary | Himself |
Tying the Knot | 2004 | Documentary | Himself |
60 Minutes | 2002-2003 | TV Series documentary | Himself - Senator, Massachusetts (segment "Malden Mills") |
Bowling for Columbine | 2002 | Documentary | Himself (uncredited) |
The Death of Vince Foster: What Really Happened? | 1995 | Video documentary | Himself |
EBN: Commercial Entertainment Product | 1992 | Video short | Himself (uncredited) |
Desert Storm: The War Begins | 1991 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |