who did president kennedy marry?
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
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 Prior to marrying his wife Valerie , John dated Carolyn Bessette the future wife of John F. Kennedy , Jr . The two met while attending University in Boston . 

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 At the time of his engagement , Ford was campaigning for what would be his first of thirteen terms as a member of the United States House of Representatives . The wedding was delayed until shortly before the elections because , as The New York Times reported in a 1974 profile of Betty Ford , " Jerry was running for Congress and wasn 't sure how voters might feel about his marrying a divorced ex @-@ dancer . " 

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 Early in his second year of law school in October 1957 , Kennedy met Virginia Joan Bennett at Manhattanville College , following a dedication speech for a gymnasium that his family donated at the campus in Purchase , New York . Bennett was a senior there , had worked as a model and won beauty contests , but was unfamiliar with the world of politics . After their engagement , she grew nervous about marrying someone she did not know that well , but his father insisted that the wedding should proceed . They were married by Cardinal Francis Spellman on November 29 , 1958 , at St. Joseph 's Church in Bronxville , New York , with the reception being held at the nearby Siwanoy Country Club . Together they had three children : Kara ( February 27 , 1960 – September 16 , 2011 ) , Ted , Jr . ( born September 26 , 1961 ) , and Patrick J. ( born July 14 , 1967 ) . By the mid @-@ 1960s , their marriage was in trouble due to Ted 's womanizing and Joan 's growing alcoholism . 

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 In December 2001 , Newsom married Kimberly Guilfoyle , a former San Francisco prosecutor and legal commentator for Court TV , CNN , and MSNBC and who is now a prominent personality on Fox News Channel . The couple married at Saint Ignatius Catholic Church on the campus of the University of San Francisco , where Guilfoyle attended law school . The couple appeared in the September 2004 issue of Harper 's Bazaar , a fashion magazine , in a spread of them at the Getty mansion with the title the " New Kennedys . " In January 2005 , they jointly filed for divorce , citing " difficulties due to their careers on opposite coasts . " 

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 Kennedy entered the Senate in a November 1962 special election to fill the seat once held by his brother John . He was elected to a full six @-@ year term in 1964 and was reelected seven more times . The Chappaquiddick incident on July 18 , 1969 , resulted in the death of his automobile passenger , Mary Jo Kopechne . Kennedy pleaded guilty to a charge of leaving the scene of an accident ; the incident and its aftermath hindered his chances of ever becoming President of the United States . His one attempt , in the 1980 presidential election , resulted in a Democratic primary campaign loss to incumbent President Jimmy Carter . 
