Jeane Kirkpatrick - Personal Life

Personal Life

On February 20, 1955, she married Evron Maurice Kirkpatrick, who was a scholar and a former member of the O.S.S. (the World War II-era predecessor of the CIA). Her husband died in 1995. They had three sons: Douglas Jordan (1956–2006), John Evron, and Stuart Alan (a.k.a. Traktung Rinpoche, a Buddhist lama).

Kirkpatrick died at her home in Bethesda, MD, on December 7, 2006 of congestive heart failure. She had been diagnosed with heart disease and had been in failing health for several years.

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