John Kerry Net Worth

Net Worth:	$250 Million
Date of Birth:	December 11, 1943 (80 years old)
Gender:	Male
Height:	6 ft 3 in (1.93 m)
Profession:	Politician, Soldier, Lawyer, Military Officer, Prosecutor, Spokesperson
Nationality:	United State Of America

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What is John Kerry’s Net Worth?

John Kerry is an American politician and diplomat who has a net worth of $250 million. He is famous for serving as the 68th Secretary of State of the United States and as a senator. John Kerry, a veteran of the Vietnam War, joined “Vietnam Veterans Against the War” and spoke out strongly against the conflict following his return home.

Childhood

John Forbes Kerry was his given name; he was born in Aurora, Colorado, on December 11, 1943. He is the second of Richard John Kerry and Rosemary Forbes’ four children. Throughout his father’s Army Air Corps service and until his release, the family relocated frequently.

Kerry lived in Millis, Massachusetts, and Groton, Massachusetts before relocating to Washington, D.C., at the age of seven, when his father accepted a position in the Department of the Navy’s Office of General Counsel and changed careers to become a diplomat in the State Department’s Bureau of United Nations Affairs.

Kerry received financial aid from his affluent great-aunt to attend a prestigious boarding school in Switzerland. Kerry later decided to major in political science at Yale University.

Military Career

Kerry joined the Naval Reserve in 1966, and between 1968 and 1969, he completed a brief four-month tour of duty as the officer-in-charge (OIC) of a Swift Boat in South Vietnam. He received three Purple Hearts, the Silver Star, the Bronze Star, and other battle honors for his service.

After that, he became a member of Vietnam Veterans Against the War, where he became a well-known national spokesperson and an outspoken opponent of the Vietnam War. Kerry claimed that American involvement in the Vietnam War was the root of “war crimes” while testifying before the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs.

Career in Politics

After earning his J.D. at Boston College Law School, he began working as an Assistant District Attorney and helped create a private practice.

Kerry worked on an early draft of the federal Clean Air Act during his two years as Massachusetts’ lieutenant governor under Michael Dukakis, from 1983 to 1985.  He was sworn in the following January after winning a close Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate in 1984.

He served as a United States Senator for Massachusetts from 1985 to 2013, and from 1987 to 1989, he presided over several hearings as the committee’s chairman.

As the Democratic Party’s candidate, John Kerry entered the 2004 presidential race but fell short of George W. Bush, the incumbent. On January 29, 2013, Kerry was confirmed by the US Senate by a vote of 94-3 after being nominated by President Barack Obama to replace Hillary Clinton as secretary of state.

On February 1, 2013, John Kerry was inaugurated. The Joint Plan of Action and the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action were both started by him in 2013, respectively. The United States representative of the Paris Climate Agreement was John Kerry in 2016.

Until the end of the Obama administration in January 2017, Kerry held the position of secretary of state. The next year, he left the administration, but he continued to be involved in politics as a critic of President Donald Trump and a backer of Vice President-elect Joe Biden.

In 2017, he chose not to attend Trump’s inauguration, and the next day he participated in the Women’s March in Washington, D.C. In September 2018, he released his autobiography, “Every Day is Extra,” which described his life and work in government.

President-elect Biden stated in November 2020 that Kerry will represent the United States as the Special Presidential Envoy on Climate in the Biden administration. He will be employed by the National Security Council in his new position.

Relationship

Alexandra and Vanessa Kerry were Kerry’s kids from his 1970 marriage to Julia Thorne. Kerry started law school a few days before Alexandra was born.

While Julia was experiencing serious depression in 1982, she petitioned John for a divorce; however, the process took a long time, and the marriage wasn’t officially dissolved until 1997.

Thorne, who backed Kerry’s presidential campaign in 2004, passed away tragically from cancer in April 2006. In May 1995, Teresa Heinz and Kerry got married. He was identified as having prostate cancer in 2003 and received effective treatment.

After breaking his right leg in a bicycle accident in Scionzier, France, in May 2015, Kerry experienced yet another health concern. He was flown to Boston’s General Hospital. A four-hour procedure resulted in his release.

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