With the death of her first husband, H. John Heinz, Teresa Heinz became the head of the Heinz Ketchup company fortune. As chairman of the Howard Heinz Endowment and the Heinz Family Philanthropies, she led the effort to fund organizations related to health care, the arts, and child education. She also established the Women's Institute for a Secure Retirement in 1996. She is the recipient of the 2003 Albert Schweitzer Gold Medal for Humanitarianism. President Obama tapped her current husband, John Kerry, to become the U.S. Secretary of State in 2013. Updated 2013
Teresa Heinz Kerry
Businessperson
Born in: Portugal
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