Sargent Shriver

Robert Sargent Shriver, Jr. (born November 9 1915 in Westminster, Maryland) is an American Democratic politician and activist. Known as "Sargent," Shriver is best-known as part of the Kennedy family, the driving force behind the creation of the Peace Corps, and the Democratic Party's 1972 vice president candidate. Shriver was born in Westminster, Maryland to Robert and Hilda Shriver. The Shriver family is a descendant of David Shriver, who signed the Maryland Constitution and Bill of Rights at Maryland's Constitutional Convention of 1776. He spent his high school years at the Canterbury School, the prestigious school in New Milford, Connecticut. After graduating from the Canterbury School, which he attended on a full scholarship, Shriver spent the summer in Germany as part of the Experiment in International Living, returning in the fall of 1934 to begin college at Yale University. He received his bachelor's degree in 1938 from Yale University, where he was a member of the Delta... full article at wikipedia