Birth Name: John Bouvier Kennedy Schlossberg
Place of Birth: New York City, New York
Date of Birth: January 19, 1993
Eye Color: Brown
Hair Type/Color: Brown
Ethnicity:
*Ashkenazi Jewish (father)
*Irish, with French, English, German, Scottish (mother)
Family info: John Schlossberg is the son of Edwin Arthur Schlossberg and Caroline Bouvier Kennedy. As of 2013, John is the only living male descendant of his maternal grandfather, John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963), who was the 35th President of the United States (1961-1963). John’s uncle, his mother’s brother, was John F. Kennedy, Jr. He has two sisters.
John’s father is Ashkenazi Jewish (from a family from Russia). John’s mother has Irish, and smaller amounts (to varying degrees) of French, English, German, and Scottish ancestry. John was raised in his mother’s Catholic faith, though John’s family also celebrates Jewish holidays.
John’s paternal grandparents were Alfred I. Schlossberg (the son of Yehuda “Edwin” Schlossberg and Khasha “Kate” Liba Kierstein) and Mae Hirsch (the daughter of Abraham Hirsch and Celia Horovitz). Alfred was born in Virginia, to Russian Jewish parents. Mae was born in New York, to Russian Jewish parents. Alfred was president of the Park East Synagogue, an Orthodox synagogue on New York’s Upper East Side.
John’s maternal grandparents were President John Fitzgerald Kennedy (the son of Joseph Patrick Kenndy and Rose Elizabeth Fitzgerald) and Jacqueline Lee Bouvier (the daughter of John Vernou Bouvier III and Margaret Lee). Joseph and Rose were both of Irish descent. John Bouvier had Irish, French, English, German, and Scottish ancestry. Margaret was of Irish descent.
Sources: John’s paternal grandfather, Alfred I. Schlossberg, on the 1910 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org
John’s paternal grandmother, Mae Hirsch (“May Hirsch”), on the 1930 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org
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