Joseph P. Kennedy II
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| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts's 8th district |
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In office January 3, 1987 – January 3, 1999 |
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| Preceded by | Tip O'Neill |
| Succeeded by | Mike Capuano |
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Joseph Patrick Kennedy II September 24, 1952 Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) |
Sheila Brewster Rauch (m. 1979; div. 1991) Anne Elizabeth Kelly (m. 1993) |
| Children | 2, including Joseph P. Kennedy III |
| Alma mater | University of Massachusetts Boston |
| Religion | Roman Catholicism |
Joseph Patrick "Joe" Kennedy II (born September 24, 1952) is an American businessman, Democratic politician, and a member of the Kennedy family.
He served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from the 8th congressional district of Massachusetts from 1987 to 1999. In 1979 he founded and, until election to the U.S. House, led Citizens Energy Corporation, a non-profit energy company; since 1999 he has continued to lead Citizens Energy.
He is the eldest son of U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Kennedy as well as the eldest grandson of Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. and Rose Kennedy.
Kennedy was born in Brighton, a neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, the second of 11 children of Ethel (Skakel) and Robert Francis Kennedy. He was named after his grandfather Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., the patriarch of the Kennedy family. He had a troubled youth, and was expelled from several private schools as a result of his quick temper. He regularly got into fights with his younger brothers and male cousins. A restless, impulsive teenager, he left Milton Academy, a private, college preparatory school, in Milton, Massachusetts, before graduating from the Manter Hall School—also a private, college-preparatory school—in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1971.
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