The same month, Kennedy enrolled in Harvard Law School. In April 2006, Kennedy returned to Massachusetts, where he and his brother co-chaired Ted Kennedy's re-election campaign. Kennedy speaking at the 50th Anniversary of the Robert F. According to a press release, his other activities in the Peace Corps included "stints as an Anti-Poverty Consultant for the Office of the President of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste and a Research Analyst for the United Nations Development Program." Entry into law and politics "We basically created a union," said Kennedy, who reported that the group's efforts won higher wages for employees while increasing the tour companies' revenue. He reorganized the group with some outside backing, directing the guides to rebuild parts of the park and develop skills to make the operation more attractive to tourists. At Stanford, Kennedy roomed with future NBA player Jason Collins and was a member of the Kappa Alpha Order fraternity.Īfter graduating in 2003, Kennedy joined the Peace Corps a fluent Spanish speaker, he worked in the Dominican Republic's Puerto Plata province from 2004 to 2006, helping local tour guides in the 27 Charcos reserve in the Río Damajagua Park. Kennedy's reputation as a teetotaler earned him the college nickname "Milkman", as his teammates on the club lacrosse team would jokingly order him glasses of milk at bars. Kennedy (left) in the Dominican Republic as part of the Peace CorpsĪfter graduating from Buckingham Browne & Nichols School in Cambridge, Kennedy and his brother enrolled at Stanford University, where he majored in management science and engineering. The twins spent the following years moving between Brighton and Cambridge. Kennedy's father was elected to Congress in 1986. Senator Ted Kennedy, the boys' grand-uncle. From birth, Kennedy was surrounded by politics in 1980, his parents worked on the presidential campaign of U.S. They were raised in Brighton and the coastal town of Marshfield, Massachusetts, also spending summers on Cape Cod. Kennedy is also the great-great-grandson of Benjamin Brewster, one of the original trustees of Standard Oil. The twins are the eldest grandsons of Senator Robert F. He was born eight minutes after his fraternal twin brother, Matthew. Kennedy was born on October 4, 1980, in Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, to Sheila Brewster (Rauch) (b. In December 2022, Kennedy was named the United States Special Envoy to Northern Ireland for Economic Affairs by President Biden. On June 4, 2021, President Joe Biden appointed him to be a member of the President's Commission on White House Fellowships.
He has also joined several advisory boards and began appearing as a political commentator for CNN. Since leaving office, he has founded Project Groundwork, which focuses on boosting local community organizing efforts throughout the United States. He was succeeded by fellow Democrat Jake Auchincloss. In 2020, rather than run for re-election to his House seat, Kennedy unsuccessfully challenged incumbent Senator Ed Markey for the Democratic nomination in the Massachusetts U.S.
Kennedy was sworn into office in January 2013, and sat on the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
House of Representatives seat held by the retiring Barney Frank. He resigned from his role as assistant district attorney in early 2012 to run for the U.S. After graduating from Stanford University with a bachelor's degree, he spent two years in the Dominican Republic as a member of the Peace Corps, before earning a Juris Doctor at Harvard Law School in 2009.
Kennedy Sr.īorn in Boston, Kennedy was raised in the area with his twin brother, Matthew Rauch Kennedy. Senator Edward M Kennedy, and a great-grandson of U.S. Ī member of the Kennedy family, he is a son of U.S. In January 2021, he became a CNN commentator. He worked as an assistant district attorney in the Cape and Islands and Middlesex County, Massachusetts, offices before his election to Congress. A member of the Democratic Party, he represented a district that extends from Boston's western suburbs to the state's South Coast. representative for Massachusetts's 4th congressional district from 2013 to 2021. Prior to this, Kennedy served as the U.S. Joseph Patrick Kennedy III (born October 4, 1980) is an American lawyer, politician and diplomat who currently serves as United States Special Envoy for Northern Ireland since 2022.
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