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Jeane Duane Kirkpatrick (née Jordan; November 19, 1926 – December 7, 2006) was an American diplomat and political scientist who played a major role in the foreign policy of the Ronald Reagan administration.
Jeane Kirkpatrick, American political scientist and diplomat, who was foreign policy adviser under U.S. President Ronald Reagan and the first American woman to serve as ambassador to the United Nations (1981–85). Learn more about Kirkpatrick’s life and career.
Dec 9, 2006 · Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, the Reagan administration’s first United Nations ambassador and a beacon of neoconservative thought who helped guide American military, diplomatic and covert action from...
Dec 9, 2006 · WASHINGTON — Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, a staunch Reagan-era anti-Communist who infused American foreign policy with firm conviction as the first American woman to serve as U.N. ambassador, has...
Learn about the life and career of Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, the first woman to serve as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and a prominent neoconservative foreign policy expert. Find out how she became a Republican, clashed with Secretary of State Haig, and influenced Reagan's policies in Central America.
Born Jeane Duane Jordan on November 19, 1926, Jeane Kirkpatrick was the daughter of Leona Kile Jordan and Welcher F. Jordan, an oil-drilling contractor in the town of Duncan, Oklahoma. Both parents took politics seriously and instilled in Jeane a sense of civic duty.
Dec 8, 2006 · Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, a guiding voice of Reagan-era conservatism and the first woman to serve as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, has died. She was 80.
