P. J. Kennedy

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P. J. Kennedy
P. J. Kennedy, c. 1900
Member of the Massachusetts Senate
from the 4th Suffolk district
In office
January 3, 1889 – January 3, 1895
Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
from the 2nd Suffolk district
In office
January 3, 1884 – January 3, 1889
Personal details
Born
Patrick Joseph Kennedy

(1858-01-14)January 14, 1858
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
DiedMay 18, 1929(1929-05-18) (aged 71)
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Political partyDemocratic
Spouse
Mary Augusta Hickey
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​
(m. 1887; died 1923)​
RelationsSee Kennedy family
Children4, including Joseph
ParentPatrick Kennedy
OccupationBusinessman and politician

Patrick Joseph Kennedy (January 14, 1858 – May 18, 1929) was an American businessman and politician from

U.S. Attorney General and U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and longtime U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy
.

After

party boss
.

Early life

Young Kennedy around the mid-to-late 1870s

Patrick Joseph Kennedy was born on January 14, 1858, in Boston, Massachusetts.

East Boston neighborhood. As the only surviving male, Kennedy was the first family member to receive a formal education, attending Sacred Heart, a private Catholic school in Boston. His mother Bridget had purchased an East Boston stationery and notions store where she had worked. The business took off and expanded into a grocery and liquor store.[2]

At the age of fourteen, young Kennedy left school to help support his mother and three older sisters, Mary, Joanna, and Margaret, as a

social drinking of upper-class Bostonians, Kennedy purchased a third bar in an upscale East Boston hotel, the Maverick House. Before he was 30, his growing prosperity allowed him to buy a whiskey-importing business.[3]

Marriage and children

On November 23, 1887, Kennedy married Mary Augusta Hickey.

Jeffries Point in East Boston.[5]

Name Birth Death Age Notes
Joseph Patrick Kennedy Sr. September 6, 1888 November 18, 1969 81 years, 2 months Married on October 7, 1914, to Rose Elizabeth Fitzgerald (July 22, 1890 – January 22, 1995); 9 children
Francis Benedict Kennedy March 11, 1891 June 14, 1892 1 year, 3 months
Mary Loretta Kennedy August 6, 1892 November 18, 1972 80 years, 3 months Married on October 12, 1927, to George William Connelly (June 10, 1898 – August 29, 1971); one daughter
Margaret Louise Kennedy October 22, 1898 November 14, 1974 76 years, 23 days Married on June 14, 1924, to Charles Joseph Burke (August 23, 1899 – April 5, 1967); three children

Political career

P. J. Kennedy in 1893 as a Massachusetts State Senator

Kennedy was "always ready to help less fortunate fellow Irishmen with a little cash and some sensible advice." A sociable man able to mix comfortably with both the

St. Louis. However, he found campaigning, speech making, and legislative maneuvering, to be less appealing than the behind-the-scenes machinations that characterized so much of Boston politics in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. After leaving the Senate and the General Court after many terms in 1895, Kennedy spent the rest of his political career as an appointed elections commissioner, an appointed city fire commissioner, as the backroom boss of Boston's Ward Two, and as a member of his party's unofficial Board of Strategy.[6]

Death

By the time of his death in 1929, Kennedy held an interest in a coal company and a substantial amount of stock in a bank, the Columbia Trust Company.[5]

In his later years, Kennedy developed degenerative liver disease. In April 1929, he was admitted to Deaconess Hospital to receive treatment.[7] He died there on May 18 at the age of 71. His funeral was held at St. John the Evangelist Church in Winthrop, Massachusetts, on May 21. The Boston Globe reported that hundreds of mourners lined the streets to watch Kennedy's funeral procession and businesses in East Boston closed to honor him.[8] Kennedy is buried in Holy Cross Cemetery in Malden, Massachusetts.[9]

Legacy

In 1914, P.J. Kennedy's son Joseph married Rose Fitzgerald (July 22, 1890 – January 22, 1995), the eldest daughter of Boston Mayor John F. Fitzgerald (1863–1950).[10] Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. went on to become a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chair[10] and a U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom.[11]

Joseph and Rose Kennedy had nine children, including World War II casualty Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., U.S. President John F. Kennedy, U.S. Attorney General and U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy.[12]

References

  1. ^ a b O'Brien, Michael (2006). John F. Kennedy: A Biography. St. Martin's Press. p. 9.
  2. ^ "A Rise to Prominence: John F. Kennedy's Paternal Lineage". National Park Service.
  3. ^ Dallek, Robert (2003). An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917 - 1963. pp. 7–8.
  4. ^ "Mary Augusta Hickey". Find A Grave. Retrieved April 16, 2014.
  5. ^
    ISBN 978-0-316-17238-7. Archived from the original
    on December 15, 2019. Retrieved September 4, 2019.
  6. ^ Dallek, Robert (2003). An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917 - 1963. p. 8.
  7. ISBN 0-670-86969-4
    .
  8. ISBN 0-312-06354-7
    .
  9. ISBN 0-345-33729-8
    .
  10. ^ a b "The Wedding That Changed American History". Time. October 7, 2014.
  11. ^ "Prohibition and Profit: The Secret Kennedy-Churchill-Roosevelt Deals". Time. October 22, 2014.
  12. ^ "Eunice Kennedy Shriver's Death Leaves 2 Living Kennedy Siblings". Fox News. March 25, 2015.
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