According to Associated Press reports, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg - daughter of John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy - has expressed her interest to New York Gov. David Paterson in getting appointed to the US Senate seat soon to be vacated by secretary of State-designate Hillary Clinton.

Once Clinton is confirmed to Obama's cabinet, Paterson will appoint someone to fill the seat for two years. Whoever Paterson appoints would serve for two years and then have to run in a special election in 2010, along with Paterson and New York's senior senator, Charles Schumer. The candidate would then have to run again in 2012.

Caroline Kennedy is the niece of Robert Kennedy -who held the New York seat from 1965 until his assassination in 1968 - and Edward Kennedy, who has been a senator from Massachusetts since 1963.

Though Caroline's Kennedy connection cannot force Paterson to choose her, the family's strong support could increase pressure on him, giving an edge above lesser-known contenders - like the State's Attorney General Andrew Cuomo; Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown; or Tom Suozzi, a Long Island elected official.

Though Kennedy has not been seen as a particularly political person, still as a prominent booster of Obama's presidential bid, she spent much of 2008 taking bigger steps onto the public stage. She made a splash in early 2008 by writing an op-ed column for The New York Times declaring her support for Obama, saying he had the potential to be as inspirational to Americans as her father was in the 1960s. She also spoke at the Democratic National Convention.

As famous as she is, Caroline - who has often been viewed as almost painfully shy - met her husband, Edwin Schlossberg, while working at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. They married in 1986 and have three children.