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Elizabeth S. (Elsa) Kean (January 31, 1897 - January 28, 1988) was an American Republican Party political spouse and philanthropist. She was the wife of Robert Kean, who served for twenty years in the U.S. House of Representatives and the mother of Thomas Kean, who served two terms as the Governor of New Jersey. Her father-in-law with Hamilton Fish Kean, who represented New Jersey in the United States Senate from 1929 to 1935. Her grandson, Thomas Kean, Jr. is the Minority Leader of the New Jersey State Senate. Born Elizabeth Stuyvesent Howard on January 31, 1897, she was a direct descendant of Peter Stuyvesant and John Nielson, a colonel in the Revolutionary army and a founder of Rutgers University. She was a daughter of Thomas H. Howard and Rose Anthony Post Howard and lived in New York City and Hyde Park, New York. She married Robert Kean on October 18, 1920 in New York City. They moved to Livingston, New Jersey in 1924, where they raised six children. She was a hospital volunteer in Washington during World War II.
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31 January 1897
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28 January 1988 (aged 90)
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| Zodiac | Aquarius |
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