Jean Kennedy Smith, the last surviving sibling of President John F. Kennedy, died in Manhattan on Wednesday night, her daughter has confirmed.
She was 92.
“She lived an amazing life,” her daughter Kym Smith told NBC News in a statement.
Smith was born to Rose and Joseph Kennedy in Boston, Massachusetts on Feb. 20, 1928.
Smith’s siblings included older brother Joseph Kennedy Jr., who was killed during World War II; Kathleen Kennedy, who died in a 1948 plane crash; President Kennedy, who was assassinated in 1963 and Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, who was killed in 1968.
The youngest of the Kennedy siblings, Sen. Edward Kennedy, died in August 2009 of brain cancer. That same month, their sister Eunice Kennedy Shriver died.
In 1993, President Bill Clinton appointed Smith to serve as ambassador to Ireland, saying that she was “as Irish as an American can be.”
She received Irish citizenship for “distinguished service to the nation” when she stepped down from her ambassador post in 1998.
Smith wrote that her childhood wass “unexceptional” in “The Nine of Us,” the memoir she published in 2016.
“It is hard for me to fully comprehend that I was growing up with brothers who eventually occupy the highest offices of our nation, including president of the United States,” she explained. “At the time, they were simply my playmates. They were the source of my amusement and the objects of my admiration.”
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