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Patrick J. Kennedy

Patrick J. Kennedy
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Chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
In office
January 3, 1999 – January 3, 2001
Leader Dick Gephardt
Preceded by Martin Frost
Succeeded by Nita Lowey
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Rhode Island's 1st district
In office
January 3, 1995 – January 3, 2011
Preceded by Ronald Machtley
Succeeded by David Cicilline
Member of the Rhode Island House of Representatives
from the 9th district
In office
January 1, 1989 – January 1, 1993
Preceded by John F. Skeffington, Jr.
Succeeded by Anastasia P. Williams
Personal details
Born Patrick Joseph Kennedy II
(1967-07-14) July 14, 1967 (age 49)
Brighton, Massachusetts, U.S.
Political party Democratic
Spouse(s) Amy Savell (m. 2011)
Relations See Kennedy family
Children 3
Parents Ted Kennedy
Joan Bennett Kennedy
Residence Brigantine, New Jersey,
United States
Alma mater Providence College (B.S.)
Occupation Politician
Religion Catholicism
Website Patrick Kennedy Homepage
partrickkennedy.house.gov (Kennedy's section at the U.S. House of Representatives official website)
kennedyforri.com, ("Patrick J. Kennedy for U.S. Congress" campaign's official website)

Patrick Joseph Kennedy II (born July 14, 1967) is an American politician and mental health advocate. From 1995 to 2011 he served as a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from Rhode Island's 1st congressional district.

A member of the Kennedy family, he is the younger son of the long-time Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy and is a nephew of former U.S. President John F. Kennedy. At the time of his father's 2009 death, he was the last remaining member of the Kennedy family to serve in an elective office in Washington. After he chose not to seek re-election in 2010 and left office the following year, it was the first time that there were no members of the Kennedy family holding office in the United States Congress or as President since 1947. This persisted until 2013, when Joseph P. Kennedy III, grandson of Robert F. Kennedy was sworn-in for Massachusetts's 4th congressional district.

Patrick Kennedy was born in Brighton, Massachusetts. He is the youngest of three children born to Senator Edward Moore "Ted" Kennedy (1932–2009) and musician/socialite/former model Virginia Joan Bennett (born 1936). His sister Kara (1960–2011) was a television and film producer while his brother Ted Jr. (born 1961) is a lawyer and member of the Connecticut State Senate. Patrick was named after his patrilineal great-grandfather, businessman and politician Patrick Joseph "P. J." Kennedy (1858–1929). Kennedy graduated from Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, in 1986, and graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree from Providence College in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1991.


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