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Posted by bigwillq in Latest Breaking News
Tue Jan 18th 2011, 03:43 PM
Source: ABC News

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Former Democratic vice presidential candidate and Peace Corps founder Robert Sargent Shriver Jr. died today at age 95, family sources told ABC News.

Serving in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations in the 1960s, Shriver ran the War on Poverty and founded or was an early advocate of groups including Head Start, VISTA, Job Corps, Community Action, Legal Services, Upward Bound, Foster Grandparents and Special Olympics.

He was the U.S. ambassador to France from 1968 to 1970. But his biggest foray into national politics came in 1972 when George McGovern chose him to replace Thomas Eagleton as his running mate on the ill-fated Democratic ticket.

Shriver married John F. Kennedy's sister, Eunice Kennedy, in 1953. She died at age of 88 in 2009.


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