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Timothy Shriver

Timothy Perry Shriver (born August 29, 1959) is an American disability rights activist, film producer, and former educator who has been Chairman of Special Olympics since 1996[2][3][4] and is the founder[5] of UNITE. He is a member of the Kennedy family as the third child of Eunice Kennedy Shriver (who founded the Special Olympics), and Sargent Shriver, who helped found the Peace Corps.

Timothy Shriver

(1959-08-29) August 29, 1959

Linda Potter
(m. 1986)

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Early life and education[edit]

Timothy Shriver was born in St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts to Sargent Shriver, a former United States Ambassador to France and the Democratic Party's vice-presidential candidate in 1972, and Eunice Kennedy Shriver, the founder of Special Olympics. He was raised as a Catholic[6] along with his siblings, Bobby Shriver, Maria Shriver, Mark Shriver, and Anthony Shriver. He is a member of the Kennedy Family through his mother, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, a younger sister of President John F. Kennedy.


Shriver graduated from St. Albans School.[7] He received his B.A. from Yale University in 1981, his M.A. in religion and religious education from The Catholic University of America in 1988,[8] and his Ph.D. in education from the University of Connecticut in 1996. He participated in the 1997 class of the Global Leaders for Tomorrow program hosted by the World Economic Forum.[9]

Fully Alive: Discovering What Matters Most[edit]

In November 2014, Shriver released a book called Fully Alive: Discovering What Matters Most.

Personal life[edit]

Shriver married Linda Potter (born January 13, 1956)[15] on May 31, 1986 at Dahlgren Chapel on the Georgetown University campus. They reside in Chevy Chase, Maryland and have five children: Sophia Rose Shriver (born 1987);[16] Timothy Perry Shriver, Jr. (born 1988);[17][18] Samuel Kennedy Shriver (born 1992);[19] Kathleen Francis Shriver (born 1994);[20][21] Caroline Elizabeth Shriver (born 1997).[22][21]


Linda Potter is the great-granddaughter of Archibald D. Russell, a great-great-granddaughter of Percy Rivington Pyne I, and a great-great-great-granddaughter of Dr. James Russell, a former president of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and Moses Taylor, who was one of the greatest railroad, iron, and coal company financiers and was president of National City Bank for 27 years. She is also a direct descendant of the merchant Russell Sturgis (1750-1826), Elizabeth (née Perkins) Sturgis (a sister of merchant Thomas Handasyd Perkins), Walter Rutherfurd (1723–1804) and Catherine Alexander (1727–1801), daughter of James Alexander and Mary Spratt Provoost. Her sister Isabel Tweedy Potter is married to Richard S. Aldrich Jr, a grandson of Richard S. Aldrich, who served in Congress from 1923 to 1933, a great-grandson of Nelson W. Aldrich, who served as a Senator from Rhode Island and a great-nephew of Abby Aldrich, who became the wife of financier and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller Jr.

2022 Honorary degree from

Georgetown University

2019 Honorary degree from

Fordham University

2012 Honorary degree from

Villanova University

2011 Honorary degree from

La Salle University

Honorary degree from

University of Connecticut

Honorary degree from

Niagara University

Honorary degree from

Albertus Magnus College

The Medal of the City of , Greece

Athens

1995 Citizen of the Year.

Connecticut

Honorary degree from

Loyola University

Honorary degree from

New England College

The Order de Manuel Amador Guerrera of the Republic of

Panama

Presidential Medallion from

University of Illinois

Honorary degree from Springfield College

Walter Camp 2015 "Distinguished American"

Honorary degree from

Saint Peter's University

American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

Board of the Education Commission of the States' Compact for Learning and Citizenship

Chairman,

Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning

Council on Foreign Relations

The Edison Schools Incorporated

The Frank Porter Graham Child Development Center at the

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Board of Advisors for HealthCorps

Chairman UNESCO at IT Tralee (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization)

Kennedy family tree

Siblings of Timothy Shriver:

(2014). Fully Alive: Discovering What Matters Most. New York, NY: Sarah Crichton Books-Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Shriver, Timothy

Religion from the Heart: Re-thinking, Re-feeling and Reviving Faith By: Timothy Shriver

at IMDb

Timothy Shriver

Full Biography from the Special Olympics Website

The Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning

Malaria No More

"". ABILITY Magazine. Aug/Sept 2010.

Timothy & Anthony Shriver — Eunice’s Legacy