Jeane Kirkpatrick
Jeane J. Kirkpatrick was an American ambassador and an ardent anticommunist. She was a longtime Democrat, who turned Republican in 1985. After serving as Ronald Reagans foreign policy adviser in his 1980 campaign, she became the first woman to serve as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
Jeane Duane Jordan was born in Duncan, Oklahoma, the daughter of an oilfield wildcatter, Welcher F. Jordan, and his wife, Leona . She attended Emerson Elementary School there and was known to her classmates as Duane Jordan. She had a younger sibling, Jerry. At age 12, her father moved the family to Mt. Vernon, Illinois, where she graduated from Mt. Vernon Township High School. In 1948, she graduated from Barnard College of Columbia University after receiving her associate degree from Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri. In 1968, Kirkpatrick earned a PhD in political science from Columbia.
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