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Joan Bennett Kennedy
First wife of Ted Kennedy
This article is about the first wife of Ted Kennedy.
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For other people named Joan Kennedy, see Joan Kennedy (disambiguation).
Virginia Joan Kennedy (néeBennett, born September 2, 1936) is an American socialite. She was the first wife of U.S. SenatorTed Kennedy.
Early life
Virginia Joan Bennett was born at Mother Cabrini Hospital in New York City.[1] She was raised in a Roman Catholic family[1] in suburban Bronxville, New York. Her parents were Virginia Joan Stead (1911–1976) and Harry Wiggin Bennett Jr.
(1907-1981)[1] Her father was a graduate of Cornell University and worked as an advertising executive. She grew up with one younger sister, Candace ("Candy"), born 1938. She attended Manhattanville College (then a Sacred Heart college), in Purchase, New York.[1] Manhattanville was also the alma mater of her future mother-in-law Rose Kennedy and future sisters-in-law Jean Kennedy Smith