Kennedy family
Kennedy Ó Cinnéide | |
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Chief Herald of Ireland Gerard Slevin | |
Parent family | O'Kennedy |
Place of origin | Dunganstown, New Ross, County Wexford, Ireland[1] |
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Founder | Patrick Kennedy (1823–1858) |
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The Kennedy family (Irish: Ó Cinnéide) is an American
P. J.'s son
Joseph and Rose's daughter
History
According to genealogist Brian Kennedy in his work JFK's Irish O'Kennedy Ancestors, the Kennedys—who would go on to play a significant role in the United States of America—originated from an Irish clan called Ó Cinnéide Fionn (which, along with the Ó Cinnéide Donn and Ó Cinnéide Ruadh, were the three Irish Gaelic Ó Cinnéide clans who ruled the Kingdom of Ormond). In 1546, their progenitor Diarmaid Ó Cinnéide Fionn became the owner of Knigh Castle, located close to what is today Puckane, County Tipperary. In 1740, having lost out to the New English order in the Kingdom of Ireland, they moved to Dunganstown, New Ross, County Wexford. Patrick Kennedy was born there.
Patrick Kennedy (1823–1858) and Bridget Murphy (1824–1888) sailed from Ireland to East Boston in 1849. Patrick worked in East Boston as a barrel maker, or cooper,[3] and had five children with Bridget. Their youngest, Patrick Joseph "P. J." Kennedy, went into business and served in the Massachusetts state legislature from 1884 to 1895.
P. J. and his wife, Mary Augusta Hickey, had four children. Their oldest was Joseph Patrick "Joe" Kennedy Sr.,[4] a businessman who amassed a private fortune in banking and securities trading, which he further expanded by investing in filmmaking and real estate. He also founded Somerset Importers and owned Chicago's Merchandise Mart.
In 1914, Joseph Sr. married Rose Fitzgerald,[5] the eldest daughter of John F. "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald, who served six years as mayor of Boston and six years as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives.[6] The couple had nine children: Joseph Jr. (1915–1944), John (called Jack) (1917–1963), Rose Marie (called Rosemary) (1918–2005), Kathleen (called Kick) (1920–1948), Eunice (1921–2009), Patricia (1924–2006), Robert (called Bobby) (1925–1968), Jean (1928–2020) and Edward (called Ted) (1932–2009).
Joseph Sr. was appointed by President
Continued public service
Every Kennedy elected to public office has served as a
Joseph Sr. expected his eldest son, Joseph Jr., to go into politics and to ultimately be elected president. Joseph Jr. was elected as a Massachusetts delegate to the
During
Ted served in the Senate with his brother Robert (1965–1968), and was serving in the Senate when his nephew, Joseph P. II, and his son, Patrick J., served in the U.S. House of Representatives representing Massachusetts's 8th congressional district (1987–1999) and Rhode Island's 1st congressional district (1995–2011), respectively. In November 2012, Joseph P. Kennedy III, son of former Rep. Joseph P. Kennedy II and grandson of the late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts's 4th congressional district. In 2020, Joseph P. III lost the U.S. Senate primary election in Massachusetts to incumbent Ed Markey, the first Kennedy to ever lose an election in the state.[9][10]
In the 2020s, three Kennedy family members were serving as U.S. ambassadors or envoys.
Businesses
- Citizens Energy Corporation[14]
- Columbia Trust Company [15]
- FBO Pictures Corporation
- George (magazine)
- Hialeah Park Race Track
- Intercontinental Rubber Company[16]
- Kennedy & Madonna LLP (law firm)
- Kenoil Corporation[17]
- Marwood Group (healthcare-focused consulting firm) [18]
- Merchandise Mart Properties, Inc.
- Mokeen Oil Company[17]
- Old Colony Realty Associates[19]
- RKO Pictures
- Somerset Imports
- Sumner Savings Bank[20]
Philanthropy and policy institutes
- Advocates for Opioid Recovery
- Best Buddies International
- Citizens Energy Corporation
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Center for Community of Caring[21]
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development
- Global Recovery Initiative[22]
- John F. Kennedy Library Foundation
- Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Foundation
- Robert F. Kennedy Center For Justice & Human Rights
- Smart Approaches to Marijuana
- Special Olympics
- Stop Handgun Violence
- Top Box Foods
- VSA (Kennedy Center)
- White House Historical Association
- Waterkeeper Alliance
Government offices held
- Patrick Joseph Kennedy: Massachusetts state Representative, 1884–1889; Massachusetts state Senator, 1889–1895.
- United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom, 1938–1940.
- United States Senator from Massachusetts, 1953–1960; President of the United States, 1961–1963.
- United States Ambassador to Australia2022–present.
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver
- Bobby Shriver: Santa Monica, California City Council member, 2004–2012; Mayor of Santa Monica, 2010.
- Mark Kennedy Shriver: Maryland state Delegate, 1995–2003.
- Robert Francis Kennedy: United States Attorney General, 1961–1964; United States Senator from New York, 1965–1968.
- Lieutenant governor of Maryland, 1995–2003.
- Joseph P. Kennedy II: United States Representative from Massachusetts, 1987–1999.
- Joseph P. Kennedy III: United States Representative from Massachusetts, 2013–2021; U.S. envoy to Northern Ireland, 2022–present.
- United States Ambassador to Ireland, 1993–1998.
- Edward Moore Kennedy: United States Senator from Massachusetts, 1962–2009.
- Connecticut state Senator, 2015–2019.
- Patrick J. Kennedy: Rhode Island state Representative, 1989–1993; United States Representative from Rhode Island, 1995–2011.
In addition, some Kennedy spouses have served in government:
- Andrew Cuomo (then-husband of Kerry Kennedy): United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, 1997–2001. After their divorce, he served as New York state attorney general (2007–2010) and New York governor (2011–2021).
- U.S. ambassador to Austria, 2022–present
- Arnold Schwarzenegger (then-husband of Maria Shriver): governor of California, 2003–2011
- U.S. ambassador to France, 1968–1970
There was a member of the Kennedy family in public office nearly continuously from 1946, when John F. Kennedy was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, until early 2011, when Patrick J. Kennedy left the House. The only exception was the period between John F. Kennedy's resignation from the Senate on December 22, 1960, and his assumption of the office of President on January 20, 1961. In 2013, two years after Patrick Kennedy left the House, Joseph P. Kennedy III was elected U.S. Representative from Massachusetts and served until 2021. Below is a timeline of the Kennedys' tenure in the U.S. Congress.
Timeline
Heraldry
In 1961, John F. Kennedy was presented with a
See also
References
Citations
- ^ "1963: Warm welcome for JFK in Ireland". BBC. June 27, 1963. Archived from the original on August 3, 2016. Retrieved January 4, 2021.
- ^ Levenson, Michael (February 13, 2010). "Pondering a Congress without Kennedys". The Boston Globe.
- ISBN 978-0-465-04317-0.
- ^ The Kennedy Family The JFK Library, accessed February 10, 2016
- ^ Graham, James (October 7, 2014). "The Wedding That Changed American History". Time.
- ^ DeCosta-Klipa, Nik (May 17, 2017). "Meet Honey Fitz: The 'pixie like' mayor of Boston (and JFK's grandfather)". Boston.com.
- ^ "Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy | JFK Library".
- ^ "www.whitehouse.gov".
- ^ Martin, Jonathan (September 1, 2020). "Markey Holds Off Joseph Kennedy in Massachusetts Senate Race". The New York Times.
The result was the first loss by a Kennedy in a Massachusetts election…
- ^ "Fast Facts about Robert F. Kennedy". John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum. Retrieved September 4, 2020. Robert F. Kennedy was not on the ballot in Massachusetts in the 1968 Democratic Party presidential primaries and finished second to Eugene McCarthy as a write-in candidate.
- ^ Thanikachalam, Neya. "Senate confirms Victoria Kennedy to be ambassador to Austria". The Boston Globe. Retrieved January 1, 2023.
- ^ Anderson, Sophia (May 3, 2023). "Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Announces 2024 Presidential Candidacy Against Bid". the Gavel. Retrieved June 17, 2023.
- ^ Keene, Houston (October 5, 2023). "RFK Jr announces independent run for president against Biden". Fox News. Archived from the original on October 14, 2023. Retrieved October 14, 2023.
- ^ "Non-Profit Energy Company | Citizens Energy". Citizens Energy Corporation. January 30, 2023.
- ISBN 978-1-59420-376-3.
- ^ Brean, Henry (May 9, 2023). "U of A teams with Bridgestone to give desert rubber source a bounce". Arizona Daily Star. Retrieved June 22, 2023.
- ^ a b Jensen, Michael C. (June 12, 1977). "Managing the Kennedy Millions". The New York Times. Retrieved June 22, 2023.
- ^ "Kennedy's former firm investigated by SEC". New Haven Register. October 30, 2014. Retrieved June 22, 2023.
- ^ Samuels, Regina (August 2, 2021). "How Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. Became a Billionaire And Founded a Political Dynasty That Defined The 20th Century!". Politic-Ed. Retrieved June 22, 2023.
- ISBN 0-446-60384-8.
- ^ "Community of Caring Names University of Utah Its New National Headquarters". UNews Archive. Salt Lake City, UT. March 25, 2011. Retrieved June 23, 2023.
- ^ Murray, Kelly (September 6, 2018). "Christopher Lawford, actor, author and nephew of John F. Kennedy, dies at 63". CNN.com. Retrieved February 28, 2019.
- ^ The General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales, Bernard Burke, Harrison & Sons, 1884, pp. 558-9
- ^ "John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 35th President of the United States". American Heraldry Society. Archived from the original on August 3, 2016. Retrieved October 27, 2009.
Book sources
- Gibson, Barbara; Ted Schwartz (1993). The Kennedys : the Third Generation. New York: Kensington Publishing. p. 458. OCLC 670288617.
- Haas, Lawrence J. The Kennedys in the World: How Jack, Bobby, and Ted Remade America's Empire (2021) excerpt
- Hunt, Amber, and David Batcher. Kennedy Wives: Triumph and Tragedy in America's Most Public Family (2014) excerpt
- Kessler, Ronald. The sins of the father: Joseph P. Kennedy and the dynasty he founded (St. Martin's Press, 1996).
- Klein, Edward. The Kennedy Curse: Why tragedy has haunted America's first family for 150 years (Macmillan, 2003).
- Leamer, Laurence. The Kennedy women: The saga of an American family (Ballantine Books, 1996). excerpt
- Leamer, Laurence. The Kennedy Men: 1901-1963 (2001) excerpt
- Leamer, Laurence. Sons of Camelot: The Fate of an American Dynasty (2005) excerpt
- Nasaw, David. The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy (2012); scholarly biography.