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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>The Political Graveyard: Kennedy family</a> of Boston, Massachusetts</title> <meta name="description" content="A database of political history and cemeteries, with brief biographical entries for 338,260 U.S. political figures, living and dead, from the 1700s to the present."> <meta name="keywords" content="political biography history genealogy cemeteries politics candidates congress senators legislators governors politicians biographies ancestors mayors birthplace geography elections"> <meta name="author" content="Lawrence Kestenbaum"> <script type="text/javascript"> var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-7383562-1']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 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These families each have three or more politician members, all linked together by blood, marriage or adoption. This specific family group is a subset of the much larger <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a> group. An individual may be listed with more than one subset. These groupings — even the names of the groupings, and the areas of main activity — are the result of a computer algorithm working with the data I have, not the choices of any historian or genealogist. <table align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Thomas Johns Perry (1807-1871) — also known as Thomas J. Perry — of Cumberland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/AL-lived.html">Allegany County</a>, Md. Born in Cumberland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/AL-born.html">Allegany County</a>, Md., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1807/02-17.html">February 17, 1807</a>. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/ofc/sthse.html">Maryland state house of delegates</a> from Allegany County, 1836; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Maryland</a> 2nd District, 1845-47; circuit judge in Maryland, 1852-61, 1867-71; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/ofc/cncn4.html">delegate to Maryland state constitutional convention</a>, 1867. Slaveowner. Died in Cumberland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/AL-died.html">Allegany County</a>, Md., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1871/06-27.html">June 27, 1871</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/64.html">64 years, 130 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/AL-buried.html#cms01085">Rose Hill Cemetery</a>, Cumberland, Md. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Roger Perry and Lucy (Calmes) Perry; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1835/11-20.html">November 20, 1835</a>, to Mary Louisa Van Lear; grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/shorten-shuja.html#313.57.61">James Causten Shriver</a>; great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/shorten-shuja.html#007.78.78">Robert Sargent Shriver Jr.</a>; second great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/shorten-shuja.html#926.51.86">Mark Kennedy Shriver</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1041.html">Kennedy family</a> of Boston, Massachusetts (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=P000245">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=408648">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Samuel Sloan (1817-1907) — of New York. Born in County Down, Ireland (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/UL-born.html">Northern Ireland</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1817/12-25.html">December 25, 1817</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/import-export.html">Importing business</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/stsen.html">New York state senate</a> 2nd District, 1858-59; president, Delaware, Lackawanna and Western <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/railroading.html">Railroad</a>, 1867-99. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a> or <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/reformed.html">Christian Reformed</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/friendly-sons-st-patrick.html">Friendly Sons of St. Patrick</a>. Died in Garrison, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/PU-died.html">Putnam County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1907/09-22.html">September 22, 1907</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/89.html">89 years, 271 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/PU-buried.html#cms02462">St. Philip's Cemetery</a>, Garrison, N.Y.; statue at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/HU-buried.html# ">Erie-Lackawanna Park</a>, Hoboken, N.J. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of William Sloan and Elizabeth (Simpson) Sloan; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1844/04-08.html">April 8, 1844</a>, to Margaret Elmendorf; grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/aubert-austen.html#827.15.08">James Coats Auchincloss</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/aubert-austen.html#534.11.05">Gordon Auchincloss</a>; third great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/aubert-austen.html#824.74.27">Jacob Daniel Auchincloss</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1041.html">Kennedy family</a> of Boston, Massachusetts (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel Sloan (railroad executive)">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/6965913">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/848/81.35.jpg" width=70 height=109 border=0 alt="T. Herbert Shriver"></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Thomas Herbert Shriver (1846-1916) — also known as T. Herbert Shriver — of Union Mills, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/CA-lived.html">Carroll County</a>, Md. Born in Union Mills, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/CA-born.html">Carroll County</a>, Md., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1846/02-19.html">February 19, 1846</a>. Democrat. Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; co-owner, later president, of the B. F. Shriver Company, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/fruit-produce.html">canners of fruits and vegetables</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/ofc/sthse.html">Maryland state house of delegates</a>, 1878-80; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/ofc/stsen.html">Maryland state senate</a>, 1884; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Maryland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1908/MD.html">1908</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/knights-columbus.html">Knights of Columbus</a>. Died in Union Mills, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/CA-died.html">Carroll County</a>, Md., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1916/12-31.html">December 31, 1916</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/70.html">70 years, 316 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/CA-buried.html#cms01946">St. John's Cemetery</a>, Westminster, Md. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of William Shriver and Margaret Josephine (Owings) Shriver; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1880/02-16.html">February 16, 1880</a>, to Elizabeth R. Lawson; grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/shorten-shuja.html#007.78.78">Robert Sargent Shriver Jr.</a>; great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/shorten-shuja.html#926.51.86">Mark Kennedy Shriver</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1041.html">Kennedy family</a> of Boston, Massachusetts (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/13993785">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Image source: Men of Mark in Maryland (1912)</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Patrick Joseph Kennedy (1858-1929) — also known as P. J. Kennedy — of Massachusetts. Born in East Boston, Boston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/SU-born.html">Suffolk County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1858/01-14.html">January 14, 1858</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/alcohol-biz.html">Liquor business</a>; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Massachusetts, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1896/MA.html">1896</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/sthse.html">Massachusetts state house of representatives</a>, 1890; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/stsen.html">Massachusetts state senate</a>, 1900. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/irish.html">Irish</a> ancestry. Died in Boston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/SU-died.html">Suffolk County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1929/05-18.html">May 18, 1929</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/71.html">71 years, 124 days</a>). Interment <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/MI-buried.html#cms06121">somewhere</a> in Malden, Mass. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Patrick Kennedy and Bridget (Murphy) Kennedy; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1887/11-23.html">November 23, 1887</a>, to Mary Augusta Hickey; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy5.html#318.23.71">Joseph Patrick Kennedy, Sr.</a>; grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy5.html#760.31.87">Joseph Patrick Kennedy Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy5.html#288.06.12">John Fitzgerald Kennedy</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lawe-lawr.html#377.02.41">Patricia Kennedy Lawford</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy7.html#923.49.98">Robert Francis Kennedy</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smith5.html#542.75.37">Jean Kennedy Smith</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy3.html#527.91.82">Edward Moore Kennedy</a>; great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/townsend.html#526.60.90">Kathleen Kennedy Townsend</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy5.html#913.28.50">Joseph Patrick Kennedy II</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy7.html#045.38.18">Robert Francis Kennedy Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy5.html#732.03.83">John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/shorten-shuja.html#926.51.86">Mark Kennedy Shriver</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy7.html#320.92.22">Patrick Joseph Kennedy (born 1967)</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1041.html">Kennedy family</a> of Boston, Massachusetts (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P. J. Kennedy">Wikipedia article</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Francis Fitzgerald (1863-1950) — also known as John F. Fitzgerald; "Honey Fitz" — of Boston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/SU-lived.html">Suffolk County</a>, Mass. Born in Boston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/SU-born.html">Suffolk County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1863/02-11.html">February 11, 1863</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">Newspaper editor and publisher</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/stsen.html">Massachusetts state senate</a>, 1893-94; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Massachusetts</a>, 1895-1901, 1919 (9th District 1895-1901, 10th District 1919); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/boston.html">mayor of Boston, Mass.</a>, 1906-08, 1910-14; defeated, 1907; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Massachusetts, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1912/MA.html">1912</a> (<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1912/speakers.html">speaker</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1932/MA.html">1932</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Massachusetts</a>, 1916; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Massachusetts</a>, 1922; Democratic Presidential Elector for Massachusetts, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/pr1932-meeting.html">1933</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>. Died in Boston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/SU-died.html">Suffolk County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1950/10-02.html">October 2, 1950</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/87.html">87 years, 233 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/SU-buried.html#cms03094">St. Joseph's Cemetery</a>, West Roxbury, Boston, Mass. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Thomas Fitzgerald and Rosanna (Cox) Fitzgerald; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1889/09-18.html">September 18, 1889</a>, to Josephine Mary Hannon; father of Rose Elizabeth Fitzgerald (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy5.html#318.23.71">Joseph Patrick Kennedy, Sr.</a>); grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy5.html#760.31.87">Joseph Patrick Kennedy Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy5.html#288.06.12">John Fitzgerald Kennedy</a> (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/oman-onearm.html#069.92.03">Jaqueline Lee Bouvier</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lawe-lawr.html#377.02.41">Patricia Kennedy Lawford</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy7.html#923.49.98">Robert Francis Kennedy</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smith5.html#542.75.37">Jean Kennedy Smith</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy3.html#527.91.82">Edward Moore Kennedy</a>; great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/townsend.html#526.60.90">Kathleen Kennedy Townsend</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy5.html#913.28.50">Joseph Patrick Kennedy II</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy7.html#045.38.18">Robert Francis Kennedy Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy5.html#732.03.83">John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/shorten-shuja.html#926.51.86">Mark Kennedy Shriver</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy7.html#320.92.22">Patrick Joseph Kennedy</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1041.html">Kennedy family</a> of Boston, Massachusetts (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">The John F. Fitzgerald <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-roads.html">Expressway</a> (also known as the Central Artery, Interstate 93, U.S. Highway 1, and Route 3), in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/SU-names.html">Boston, Massachusetts</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=F000164">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=404119">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/1880">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Oliver Gould Jennings (1865-1936) — also known as Oliver G. Jennings — of Fairfield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-born.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1865/04-27.html">April 27, 1865</a>. Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from Connecticut, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1916/CT.html">1916</a>; Republican Presidential Elector for Connecticut, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/pr1920-meeting.html">1921</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/sthse.html">Connecticut state house of representatives</a> from Fairfield, 1923-24; director, U.S. Industrial Alcohol Company; director, Bethlehem <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/metal.html">Steel</a> Corporation; director, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/food.html">Grocery Store</a> Products, Inc. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/delta-kappa-epsilon.html">Delta Kappa Epsilon</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/skull-bones.html">Skull and Bones</a>. Died, of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/pneumonia.html">bronchial pneumonia</a>, in the Harbor <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/nursing-homes.html">Sanitarium</a>, Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-died.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1936/10-13.html">October 13, 1936</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/71.html">71 years, 169 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-buried.html#cms05539">Oak Lawn Cemetery</a>, Fairfield, Conn. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Oliver Burr Jennings and Esther Judson (Goodsell) Jennings; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1896/">1896</a> to Mary Dows Brewster; father of Benjamin Brewster Jennings; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/aubert-austen.html#090.56.97">Hugh Dudley Auchincloss</a>; granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/aubert-austen.html#935.03.41">Hugh Dudley Auchincloss III</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1041.html">Kennedy family</a> of Boston, Massachusetts (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/85280763">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/6220314164/"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/647/57.63.jpg" width=70 height=98 border=0 alt="Thomas P. Gore"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Thomas Pryor Gore (1870-1949) — also known as Thomas P. Gore — of Texas; Lawton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OK/CO-lived.html">Comanche County</a>, Okla.; Oklahoma City, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OK/OK-lived.html">Oklahoma County</a>, Okla. Born near Embry, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/WE-born.html">Webster County</a>, Miss., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1870/12-10.html">December 10, 1870</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Texas</a>, 1898; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OK/ofc/trcn.html">member Oklahoma territorial council</a>, 1903-05; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OK/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Oklahoma</a>, 1907-21, 1931-37; defeated, 1920, 1936; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Oklahoma, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1912/OK.html">1912</a> (<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1912/speakers.html">speaker</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1928/OK.html">1928</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/OK.html">Democratic National Committee from Oklahoma</a>, 1912-16. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/knights-pythias.html">Knights of Pythias</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/moose.html">Moose</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/woodmen.html">Woodmen</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/elks.html">Elks</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/disabled.html">Blind</a> due to an accident suffered when he was a boy; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/first.html">first</a> blind member of the U.S. Senate. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1949/03-16.html">March 16, 1949</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/78.html">78 years, 96 days</a>). Originally entombed at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OK/OK-buried.html#cms04481">Rose Hill Burial Park</a>, Oklahoma City, Okla.; later interred in 1949 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OK/OK-buried.html#cms01103">Fairlawn Cemetery</a>, Oklahoma City, Okla. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Tom M. Gore and Carrie E. (Wingo) Gore; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1900/12-27.html">December 27, 1900</a>, to Nina Kay; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/olden-oliven.html#407.85.36">Nina S. Gore</a> (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/aubert-austen.html#090.56.97">Hugh Dudley Auchincloss</a>); grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/verna-vigorito.html#219.93.05">Eugene Luther Gore Vidal Jr.</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1041.html">Kennedy family</a> of Boston, Massachusetts (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">The <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-cities.html">town</a> of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OK/SQ-names.html">Gore, Oklahoma</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=G000323">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=404681">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/465/000176934">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/6256971">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Image source: Library of Congress</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> James Causten Shriver (1870-1948) — also known as James C. Shriver — of Cumberland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/AL-lived.html">Allegany County</a>, Md. Born in Cumberland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/AL-born.html">Allegany County</a>, Md., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1870/11-14.html">November 14, 1870</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/ofc/cr21.html">Delegate to Maryland convention to ratify 21st amendment</a> 6th District, 1933; postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/ofc/cumberland.html#2">Cumberland, Md.</a>, 1935-46. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1948/02-04.html">February 4, 1948</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/77.html">77 years, 82 days</a>). Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Henry Shriver and Sarah Sargent Van Lear (Perry) Shriver; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1935/">1935</a> to Gertrude Golden; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/shorten-shuja.html#007.78.78">Robert Sargent Shriver Jr.</a>; grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/perry.html#769.05.51">Thomas Johns Perry</a>; granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/shorten-shuja.html#926.51.86">Mark Kennedy Shriver</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1041.html">Kennedy family</a> of Boston, Massachusetts (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> James Coats Auchincloss (1885-1976) — also known as James C. Auchincloss — of Rumson, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/MO-lived.html">Monmouth County</a>, N.J. Born in New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-born.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1885/01-19.html">January 19, 1885</a>. Republican. Mayor of Rumson, N.J., 1938-43; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New Jersey</a> 3rd District, 1943-65. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ax-died.html">Alexandria</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1976/10-02.html">October 2, 1976</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/91.html">91 years, 257 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/BX-buried.html#cms00342">Woodlawn Cemetery</a>, Bronx, N.Y. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Edgar Stirling Auchincloss and Maria LeGrange 'Maggie' (Sloan) Auchincloss; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/aubert-austen.html#534.11.05">Gordon Auchincloss</a>; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1909/">1909</a> to Lee F. Alexander; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1960/11-18.html">November 18, 1960</a>, to Vera Rogers Brown; grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sloan.html#196.70.84">Samuel Sloan</a>; great-granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/aubert-austen.html#824.74.27">Jacob Daniel Auchincloss</a>; third great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/salmons-salzman.html#676.30.34">Gurdon Saltonstall (1708-1785)</a>; fourth great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/salmons-salzman.html#067.45.90">Gurdon Saltonstall (1666-1724)</a>; fifth great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/winterberg-wisdom.html#711.88.26">Fitz-John Winthrop</a>; sixth great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/winterberg-wisdom.html#563.19.80">John Winthrop (1606-1676)</a>; seventh great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/winterberg-wisdom.html#616.31.30">John Winthrop (1588-1649)</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/aubert-austen.html#090.56.97">Hugh Dudley Auchincloss</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/aubert-austen.html#935.03.41">Hugh Dudley Auchincloss III</a>; first cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/winterberg-wisdom.html#032.26.38">Thomas Lindall Winthrop</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sears.html#749.78.46">David Sears</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/winterberg-wisdom.html#613.51.62">Robert Charles Winthrop</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/salmons-salzman.html#776.61.94">Leverett Saltonstall</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/salmons-salzman.html#640.25.25">James Rodes Saltonstall</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1041.html">Kennedy family</a> of Boston, Massachusetts (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=A000227">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=400986">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James C. Auchincloss">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7643346">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Gordon Auchincloss (1886-1943) — of Locust Valley, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NA-lived.html">Nassau County</a>, Long Island, N.Y. Born in New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-born.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1886/06-15.html">June 15, 1886</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; assistant treasurer, Democratic National Committee, 1916; secretary to his father-in-law, Col. Edward M. House, during negotiations of the Armistice in 1918 and the Paris Peace Conference in 1919; director, Chase National <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">Bank</a> and International <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/papermaking.html">Paper</a> Company; bankruptcy trustee and receiver. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/psi-upsilon.html">Psi Upsilon</a>. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/cancer.html">Hodgkin's disease</a>, in the Columbia-Presbyterian <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Medical Center</a>, Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-died.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1943/04-16.html">April 16, 1943</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/56.html">56 years, 305 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/BX-buried.html#cms00342">Woodlawn Cemetery</a>, Bronx, N.Y. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Edgar Stirling Auchincloss and Maria LaGrange 'Maggie' (Sloan) Auchincloss; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/aubert-austen.html#827.15.08">James Coats Auchincloss</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1912/09-14.html">September 14, 1912</a>, to Mary Janet House; grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sloan.html#196.70.84">Samuel Sloan</a>; great-granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/aubert-austen.html#824.74.27">Jacob Daniel Auchincloss</a>; third great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/salmons-salzman.html#676.30.34">Gurdon Saltonstall (1708-1785)</a>; fourth great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/salmons-salzman.html#067.45.90">Gurdon Saltonstall (1666-1724)</a>; fifth great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/winterberg-wisdom.html#711.88.26">Fitz-John Winthrop</a>; sixth great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/winterberg-wisdom.html#563.19.80">John Winthrop (1606-1676)</a>; seventh great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/winterberg-wisdom.html#616.31.30">John Winthrop (1588-1649)</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/aubert-austen.html#090.56.97">Hugh Dudley Auchincloss</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/aubert-austen.html#935.03.41">Hugh Dudley Auchincloss III</a>; first cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/winterberg-wisdom.html#032.26.38">Thomas Lindall Winthrop</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sears.html#749.78.46">David Sears</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/winterberg-wisdom.html#613.51.62">Robert Charles Winthrop</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/salmons-salzman.html#776.61.94">Leverett Saltonstall</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/salmons-salzman.html#640.25.25">James Rodes Saltonstall</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1041.html">Kennedy family</a> of Boston, Massachusetts (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/97543141">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Joseph Patrick Kennedy, Sr. (1888-1969) — also known as Joseph P. Kennedy; Joe Kennedy — of Brookline, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/NO-lived.html">Norfolk County</a>, Mass.; Bronxville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/WE-lived.html">Westchester County</a>, N.Y. Born in Boston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/SU-born.html">Suffolk County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1888/09-06.html">September 6, 1888</a>. Supervisor of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/nautical.html">shipyard</a> at Quincy, Mass.; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">banker</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/finance.html">stockbroker</a>; owner and financier of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/entertainment.html">movie</a> studios in the 1920s; organized the merger that created Radio-Keith-Orpheum (RKO) in 1928; chair, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, 1934-35; U.S. Ambassador to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/UK-diplomats.html ">Great Britain</a>, 1938-40. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/irish.html">Irish</a> ancestry. Died, of complications from a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/stroke.html">stroke</a>, in Hyannis Port, Barnstable, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/BA-died.html">Barnstable County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1969/11-18.html">November 18, 1969</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/81.html">81 years, 73 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/NO-buried.html#cms01538">Holyhood Cemetery</a>, Brookline, Mass. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Mary Augusta (Hickey) Kennedy and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy7.html#790.83.86">Patrick Joseph Kennedy (1858-1929)</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1914/10-07.html">October 7, 1914</a>, to Rose Elizabeth Fitzgerald (daughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fitzgerald.html#208.89.14">John Francis Fitzgerald</a>); father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy5.html#760.31.87">Joseph Patrick Kennedy Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy5.html#288.06.12">John Fitzgerald Kennedy</a> (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/oman-onearm.html#069.92.03">Jaqueline Lee Bouvier</a>), Eunice Mary Kennedy (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/shorten-shuja.html#007.78.78">Robert Sargent Shriver Jr.</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lawe-lawr.html#377.02.41">Patricia Kennedy Lawford</a> (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lawe-lawr.html#466.04.80">Peter Lawford</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy7.html#923.49.98">Robert Francis Kennedy</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smith5.html#542.75.37">Jean Kennedy Smith</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy3.html#527.91.82">Edward Moore Kennedy</a>; grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/townsend.html#526.60.90">Kathleen Kennedy Townsend</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy5.html#913.28.50">Joseph Patrick Kennedy II</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy7.html#045.38.18">Robert Francis Kennedy Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy5.html#732.03.83">John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/shorten-shuja.html#926.51.86">Mark Kennedy Shriver</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy7.html#320.92.22">Patrick Joseph Kennedy (born 1967)</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1041.html">Kennedy family</a> of Boston, Massachusetts (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph P. Kennedy%2C Sr.">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/kennedy-joseph-patrick ?">U.S. State Dept career summary</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/317/000024245">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0448132">Internet Movie Database profile</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/572">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=95677">OurCampaigns candidate detail</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Books about Joseph P. Kennedy: Richard J. Whalen, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0895267330/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0895267330&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Founding Father : The Story of Joseph P. Kennedy, A Study in Power, Wealth, and Family Ambition</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Critical books about Joseph P. Kennedy: Ronald Kessler, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0446603848/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0446603848&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Sins of the Father : Joseph P. Kennedy and the Dynasty He Founded</a> — Ted Schwarz, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0471176818/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0471176818&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Joseph P. Kennedy : The Mogul, the Mob, the Statesman, and the Making of an American Myth</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Hugh Dudley Auchincloss (1897-1976) — also known as Hugh D. Auchincloss — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ff-lived.html">Fairfax</a>, Va. Born in Newport, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/NE-born.html">Newport County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1897/08-28.html">August 28, 1897</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/finance.html">stockbroker</a>; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from Virginia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1940/VA.html">1940</a>. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-died.html">Washington</a>, D.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1976/11-20.html">November 20, 1976</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/79.html">79 years, 84 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/NE-buried.html#cms01071">Island Cemetery</a>, Newport, R.I. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Hugh Dudley Auchincloss (1858-1913) and Emma Brewster (Jennings) Auchincloss; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1942/">1942</a> to Janet Norton (Lee) Bouvier; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1935/">1935</a> to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/olden-oliven.html#407.85.36">Nina Gore Vidal</a> (daughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gore.html#647.57.63">Thomas Pryor Gore</a>); step-father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/oman-onearm.html#069.92.03">Jaqueline Lee Bouvier</a> (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy5.html#288.06.12">John Fitzgerald Kennedy</a>); father of Nina Gore Auchincloss (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/steelman-steil.html#986.89.07">Newton Ivan Steers Jr.</a>) and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/aubert-austen.html#935.03.41">Hugh Dudley Auchincloss III</a>; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jennings.html#841.56.54">Oliver Gould Jennings</a>; third great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/salmons-salzman.html#676.30.34">Gurdon Saltonstall (1708-1785)</a>; fourth great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/salmons-salzman.html#067.45.90">Gurdon Saltonstall (1666-1724)</a>; fifth great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/winterberg-wisdom.html#711.88.26">Fitz-John Winthrop</a>; sixth great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/winterberg-wisdom.html#563.19.80">John Winthrop (1606-1676)</a>; seventh great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/winterberg-wisdom.html#616.31.30">John Winthrop (1588-1649)</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/aubert-austen.html#827.15.08">James Coats Auchincloss</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/aubert-austen.html#534.11.05">Gordon Auchincloss</a>; first cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/aubert-austen.html#824.74.27">Jacob Daniel Auchincloss</a>; first cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/winterberg-wisdom.html#032.26.38">Thomas Lindall Winthrop</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sears.html#749.78.46">David Sears</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/winterberg-wisdom.html#613.51.62">Robert Charles Winthrop</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/salmons-salzman.html#776.61.94">Leverett Saltonstall</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/salmons-salzman.html#640.25.25">James Rodes Saltonstall</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1041.html">Kennedy family</a> of Boston, Massachusetts (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Epitaph: "Beloved wise and noble man."</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh D. Auchincloss">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/6608186">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Nina Gore Olds (1903-1978) — also known as Nina S. Gore; Nina Gore Vidal; Nina Gore Auchincloss — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ff-lived.html">Fairfax</a>, Va. Born in Lawton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OK/CO-born.html">Comanche County</a>, Okla., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1903/06-25.html">June 25, 1903</a>. Democrat. Alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from Virginia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1940/VA.html">1940</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. Died in Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-died.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1978/04-03.html">April 3, 1978</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/74.html">74 years, 282 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OK/OK-buried.html#cms01103">Fairlawn Cemetery</a>, Oklahoma City, Okla. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Daughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gore.html#647.57.63">Thomas Pryor Gore</a> and Nina Belle (Kay) Gore; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1935/">1935</a> to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/aubert-austen.html#090.56.97">Hugh Dudley Auchincloss</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1921/01-11.html">January 11, 1921</a>, to Eugene Luther Vidal; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1942/">1942</a> to Robert Olds; mother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/verna-vigorito.html#219.93.05">Eugene Luther Gore Vidal Jr.</a> and Nina Gore Auchincloss (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/steelman-steil.html#986.89.07">Newton Ivan Steers Jr.</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1041.html">Kennedy family</a> of Boston, Massachusetts (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/8124658">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Robert Sargent Shriver Jr. (1915-2011) — also known as R. Sargent Shriver, Jr.; "Sarge" — Born in Westminster, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/CA-born.html">Carroll County</a>, Md., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1915/11-09.html">November 9, 1915</a>. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; organized and directed the Peace Corps, 1961-66; U.S. Ambassador to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/FR-diplomats.html ">France</a>, 1968-70; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/pres-vp.html">Vice President of the United States</a>, 1972; candidate for Democratic nomination for President, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1976/index.html">1976</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/german.html">German</a> ancestry. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/delta-kappa-epsilon.html">Delta Kappa Epsilon</a>. Received the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/medal-of-freedom.html">Presidential Medal of Freedom</a> in 1994. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/dementia.html">Alzheimer's disease</a>, in Suburban <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, Bethesda, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/MO-died.html">Montgomery County</a>, Md., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2011/01-18.html">January 18, 2011</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/95.html">95 years, 70 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/BA-buried.html# ">St. Francis Xavier Cemetery</a>, Centerville, Mass. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Robert Sargent Shriver and Hilda (Shriver) Shriver; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1953/05-23.html">May 23, 1953</a>, to Eunice Mary Kennedy (daughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy5.html#318.23.71">Joseph Patrick Kennedy, Sr.</a>; sister of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy5.html#288.06.12">John Fitzgerald Kennedy</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lawe-lawr.html#377.02.41">Patricia Kennedy Lawford</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy7.html#923.49.98">Robert Francis Kennedy</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smith5.html#542.75.37">Jean Kennedy Smith</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy3.html#527.91.82">Edward Moore Kennedy</a>; aunt of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/townsend.html#526.60.90">Kathleen Kennedy Townsend</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy7.html#045.38.18">Robert Francis Kennedy Jr.</a>); father of Maria Owings Shriver (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schwartzenburg-scotland.html#152.99.32">Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger</a>) and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/shorten-shuja.html#926.51.86">Mark Kennedy Shriver</a>; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/shorten-shuja.html#313.57.61">James Causten Shriver</a>; grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/shorten-shuja.html#848.81.35">Thomas Herbert Shriver</a>; great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/perry.html#769.05.51">Thomas Johns Perry</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1041.html">Kennedy family</a> of Boston, Massachusetts (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Sargent Shriver <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-schools.html">Elementary School</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/MO-names.html">Silver Spring, Maryland</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sargent Shriver">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/shriver-robert-sargent ?">U.S. State Dept career summary</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/499/000025424">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0795418">Internet Movie Database profile</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/64372161">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Books about R. Sargent Shriver: Scott Stossel, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1588341275/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1588341275&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Sarge: The Life and Times of Sargent Shriver</a> — Mark Shriver, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0805095306/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0805095306&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">A Good Man: Rediscovering My Father, Sargent Shriver</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Joseph Patrick Kennedy Jr. (1915-1944) — also known as Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. — of Cambridge, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/MI-lived.html">Middlesex County</a>, Mass. Born in Hull, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/PL-born.html">Plymouth County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1915/07-25.html">July 25, 1915</a>. Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Massachusetts, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1940/MA.html">1940</a>; served in the U.S. Navy during World War II. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/world-war-ii.html">Killed</a> when his Liberator <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/aircraft.html">bomber</a> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/fire.html">exploded</a>, over the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WW/AT-died.html">English Channel</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1944/08-12.html">August 12, 1944</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/29.html">29 years, 18 days</a>). Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy5.html#318.23.71">Joseph Patrick Kennedy, Sr.</a> and Rose (Fitzgerald) Kennedy; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy5.html#288.06.12">John Fitzgerald Kennedy</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lawe-lawr.html#377.02.41">Patricia Kennedy Lawford</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy7.html#923.49.98">Robert Francis Kennedy</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smith5.html#542.75.37">Jean Kennedy Smith</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy3.html#527.91.82">Edward Moore Kennedy</a>; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/townsend.html#526.60.90">Kathleen Kennedy Townsend</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy5.html#913.28.50">Joseph Patrick Kennedy II</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy7.html#045.38.18">Robert Francis Kennedy Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy5.html#732.03.83">John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/shorten-shuja.html#926.51.86">Mark Kennedy Shriver</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy7.html#320.92.22">Patrick Joseph Kennedy (born 1967)</a>; grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy7.html#790.83.86">Patrick Joseph Kennedy (1858-1929)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fitzgerald.html#208.89.14">John Francis Fitzgerald</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1041.html">Kennedy family</a> of Boston, Massachusetts (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Edmund M. Reggie — of Crowley, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/LA/AC-lived.html">Acadia Parish</a>, La. Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Louisiana, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1956/LA.html">1956</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1968/LA.html">1968</a>. Presumed deceased. Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Father of Victoria Anne Reggie (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy3.html#527.91.82">Edward Moore Kennedy</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1041.html">Kennedy family</a> of Boston, Massachusetts (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/70/Jfk2.jpg"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/288/06.12.jpg" width=70 height=111 border=0 alt="John F. Kennedy"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963) — also known as John F. Kennedy; "J.F.K."; "Lancer" — of Boston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/SU-lived.html">Suffolk County</a>, Mass. Born in Brookline, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/NO-born.html">Norfolk County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1917/05-29.html">May 29, 1917</a>. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Massachusetts</a> 11th District, 1947-53; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Massachusetts</a>, 1953-60; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Massachusetts, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1956/MA.html">1956</a>; candidate for Democratic nomination for Vice President, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1956/index.html">1956</a>; received a 1957 <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/pulitzer-prize.html">Pulitzer Prize</a> for his book Profiles in Courage; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/pres-vp.html">President of the United States</a>, 1961-63; died in office 1963. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/irish.html">Irish</a> ancestry. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/knights-columbus.html">Knights of Columbus</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-legion.html">American Legion</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/elks.html">Elks</a>. Kennedy was posthumously awarded the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/medal-of-freedom.html">Presidential Medal of Freedom</a> in 1963. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gunshot.html">Shot</a> by a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/murder.html">sniper</a>, Lee Harvey Oswald, while <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/in-cars.html">riding in a motorcade</a>, and died in Parkland <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, Dallas, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/DA-died.html">Dallas County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1963/11-22.html">November 22, 1963</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/46.html">46 years, 177 days</a>). Oswald was shot and killed two days later by Jack Ruby. Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/AR-buried.html#cms00004">Arlington National Cemetery</a>, Arlington, Va.; memorial monument at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/DA-buried.html#cms08311">John F. Kennedy Memorial Plaza</a>, Dallas, Tex. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy5.html#318.23.71">Joseph Patrick Kennedy, Sr.</a> and Rose (Fitzgerald) Kennedy; step-brother-in-law of Nina Gore Auchincloss (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/steelman-steil.html#986.89.07">Newton Ivan Steers Jr.</a>); brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy5.html#760.31.87">Joseph Patrick Kennedy Jr.</a>, Eunice Mary Kennedy (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/shorten-shuja.html#007.78.78">Robert Sargent Shriver Jr.</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lawe-lawr.html#377.02.41">Patricia Kennedy Lawford</a> (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lawe-lawr.html#466.04.80">Peter Lawford</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy7.html#923.49.98">Robert Francis Kennedy</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smith5.html#542.75.37">Jean Kennedy Smith</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy3.html#527.91.82">Edward Moore Kennedy</a> (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy5.html#859.18.92">Virginia Joan Bennett</a>); married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1953/09-12.html">September 12, 1953</a>, to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/oman-onearm.html#069.92.03">Jaqueline Lee Bouvier</a> (step-daughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/aubert-austen.html#090.56.97">Hugh Dudley Auchincloss</a>; step-sister of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/verna-vigorito.html#219.93.05">Eugene Luther Gore Vidal Jr.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/aubert-austen.html#935.03.41">Hugh Dudley Auchincloss III</a>); father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy5.html#732.03.83">John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr.</a>; uncle of Maria Owings Shriver (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schwartzenburg-scotland.html#152.99.32">Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/townsend.html#526.60.90">Kathleen Kennedy Townsend</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy5.html#913.28.50">Joseph Patrick Kennedy II</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy7.html#045.38.18">Robert Francis Kennedy Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/shorten-shuja.html#926.51.86">Mark Kennedy Shriver</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy7.html#320.92.22">Patrick Joseph Kennedy (born 1967)</a>; grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy7.html#790.83.86">Patrick Joseph Kennedy (1858-1929)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fitzgerald.html#208.89.14">John Francis Fitzgerald</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1041.html">Kennedy family</a> of Boston, Massachusetts (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Cross-reference: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/conlan-connellan.html#422.39.81">John B. Connally</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gonas-gooch.html#410.98.15">Henry B. Gonzalez</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wade.html#538.09.90">Henry M. Wade</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/rogers9.html#183.09.22">Walter Rogers</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stubblefield-styles.html#773.54.04">Gerry E. Studds</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mcbroom-mccain.html#186.62.21">James B. McCahey, Jr.</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dalton.html#603.68.14">Mark Dalton</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/carr.html#355.03.96">Waggoner Carr</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/somervell-souter.html#994.77.46">Theodore C. Sorensen</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/saintgeorge-salliotte.html#847.73.76">Pierre Salinger</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/martin5.html#355.85.43">John Bartlow Martin</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/davenport.html#600.87.10">Abraham Davenport</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/conlan-connellan.html#255.25.87">Nellie Connally</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">The John F. Kennedy Memorial <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-bridges.html">Bridge</a> (opened 1963), which carries southbound I-65 over the Ohio River from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IN/CL-names.html">Jeffersonville, Indiana</a>, to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/JF-names.html">Louisville, Kentucky</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Coins and currency: His <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/coins-currency.html">portrait appears</a> on the U.S. half dollar coin.</li> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=K000107">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=406274">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John F. Kennedy">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/113/000024041">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0448123">Internet Movie Database profile</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/574">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=4041">OurCampaigns candidate detail</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Books by John F. Kennedy: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060955449/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0060955449&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Profiles in Courage</a> (1956)</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Books about John F. Kennedy: Christopher Loviny & Vincent Touze, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/2020596954/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=2020596954&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">JFK : Remembering Jack</a> — Robert Dallek, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0316172383/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0316172383&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">An Unfinished Life : John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963</a> — Michael O'Brien, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0312281293/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0312281293&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">John F. Kennedy : A Biography</a> — Sean J. Savage, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0791461696/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0791461696&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">JFK, LBJ, and the Democratic Party</a> — Thurston Clarke, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0805072136/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0805072136&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Ask Not : The Inauguration of John F. Kennedy and the Speech That Changed America</a> — Thomas Reeves, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/076151287X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=076151287X&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">A Question of Character : A Life of John F. Kennedy</a> — Chris Matthews, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1451635087/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1451635087&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero</a> — Mike Resnick, ed., <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0812511925/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0812511925&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Alternate Presidents [anthology]</a> — Shelley Sommer, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060541350/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0060541350&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">John F. Kennedy : His Life and Legacy</a> (for young readers)</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Critical books about John F. Kennedy: Seymour Hersh, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0316360678/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0316360678&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Dark Side of Camelot</a> — Lance Morrow, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0465047238/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0465047238&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Best Year of Their Lives: Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon in 1948: Learning the Secrets of Power</a> — Victor Lasky, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0440144078/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0440144078&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">JFK: the Man and the Myth</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Image source: Warren Commission report (via Wikipedia)</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Newton Ivan Steers Jr. (1917-1993) — also known as Newton Steers — of Bethesda, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/MO-lived.html">Montgomery County</a>, Md. Born in Glen Ridge, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ES-born.html">Essex County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1917/01-13.html">January 13, 1917</a>. Republican. Served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; delegate to Republican National Convention from Maryland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1964/MD.html">1964</a> (delegation chair); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/MD.html">Maryland Republican state chair</a>, 1964-66; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/ofc/stsen.html">Maryland state senate</a>, 1971-74, 1975-77; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Maryland</a> 8th District, 1977-79; defeated, 1980. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/methodist.html">Methodist</a>. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1993/index.html">1993</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/76.html">about 76 years</a>). Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Newton Ivan Steers and Claire Louise (Herder) Steers; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1957/06-08.html">June 8, 1957</a>, to Nina Gore Auchincloss (born 1937; daughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/aubert-austen.html#090.56.97">Hugh Dudley Auchincloss</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/olden-oliven.html#407.85.36">Nina Gore Auchincloss (1903-1978)</a>; step-sister-in-law of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy5.html#288.06.12">John Fitzgerald Kennedy</a>; half-sister of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/verna-vigorito.html#219.93.05">Eugene Luther Gore Vidal Jr.</a>); married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1978/12-29.html">December 29, 1978</a>, to Gabriele (Wirsich) Irwin.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1041.html">Kennedy family</a> of Boston, Massachusetts (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000844">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=410308">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Peter Lawford (1923-1984) — also known as Peter Sydney Ernest Aylen Lawford — Born in London, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/ED-born.html">England</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1923/09-07.html">September 7, 1923</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/entertainment.html">Actor</a>; naturalized U.S. citizen; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1960 /speakers.html">honored guest</a>, Democratic National Convention, 1960. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/english.html">English</a> ancestry. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">cardiac arrest</a>, while suffering from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/kidney.html">kidney failure</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/liver.html">liver failure</a>, in Cedars-Sinai <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Medical Center</a>, Los Angeles, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-died.html">Los Angeles County</a>, Calif., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1984/12-24.html">December 24, 1984</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/61.html">61 years, 108 days</a>). <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/plcrem.html">Cremated</a>; ashes scattered in North Pacific Ocean; cenotaph at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-buried.html# ">Westwood Memorial Park</a>, Westwood, Los Angeles, Calif. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Sydney Turing Barlow Lawford and May Somerville (Bunny) Lawford; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1971/10-30.html">October 30, 1971</a>, to Mary Rowan; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1976/06-25.html">June 25, 1976</a>, to Deborah Gould; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1984/07-05.html">July 5, 1984</a>, to Patricia Seaton; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1954/04-24.html">April 24, 1954</a>, to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lawe-lawr.html#377.02.41">Patricia Helen Kennedy</a> (daughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy5.html#318.23.71">Joseph Patrick Kennedy, Sr.</a>; sister of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy5.html#288.06.12">John Fitzgerald Kennedy</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy7.html#923.49.98">Robert Francis Kennedy</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smith5.html#542.75.37">Jean Kennedy Smith</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy3.html#527.91.82">Edward Moore Kennedy</a>); father of Christopher Lawford.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1041.html">Kennedy family</a> of Boston, Massachusetts (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Epitaph: "Beloved Husband, Father & Friend."</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter Lawford">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/686/000031593">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0492444">Internet Movie Database profile</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/2960">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Patricia Kennedy Lawford (1924-2006) — also known as Pat Lawford; Patricia Helen Kennedy — of Santa Monica, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-lived.html">Los Angeles County</a>, Calif. Born in Brookline, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/NO-born.html">Norfolk County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1924/05-06.html">May 6, 1924</a>. Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from California, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1960/CA.html">1960</a>; Democratic candidate for Presidential Elector for California, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/ofc/pr1960-election.html">1960</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/irish.html">Irish</a> ancestry. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/pneumonia.html">pneumonia</a>, in a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">hospital</a> at Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-died.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2006/09-17.html">September 17, 2006</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/82.html">82 years, 134 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/SF-buried.html#cms01997">Southampton Cemetery</a>, Southampton, Long Island, N.Y. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Daughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy5.html#318.23.71">Joseph Patrick Kennedy, Sr.</a> and Rose (Fitzgerald) Kennedy; sister of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy5.html#760.31.87">Joseph Patrick Kennedy Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy5.html#288.06.12">John Fitzgerald Kennedy</a>, Eunice Mary Kennedy (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/shorten-shuja.html#007.78.78">Robert Sargent Shriver Jr.</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy7.html#923.49.98">Robert Francis Kennedy</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smith5.html#542.75.37">Jean Kennedy Smith</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy3.html#527.91.82">Edward Moore Kennedy</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1954/04-24.html">April 24, 1954</a>, to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lawe-lawr.html#466.04.80">Peter Lawford</a>; mother of Christopher Lawford; aunt of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/townsend.html#526.60.90">Kathleen Kennedy Townsend</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy5.html#913.28.50">Joseph Patrick Kennedy II</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy7.html#045.38.18">Robert Francis Kennedy Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy5.html#732.03.83">John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/shorten-shuja.html#926.51.86">Mark Kennedy Shriver</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy7.html#320.92.22">Patrick Joseph Kennedy (born 1967)</a>; granddaughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy7.html#790.83.86">Patrick Joseph Kennedy (1858-1929)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fitzgerald.html#208.89.14">John Francis Fitzgerald</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1041.html">Kennedy family</a> of Boston, Massachusetts (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia Kennedy Lawford">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/193/000206572">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1414478">Internet Movie Database profile</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/15789722">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Robert Francis Kennedy (1925-1968) — also known as Robert F. Kennedy; Bobby Kennedy; "R.F.K." — of Boston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/SU-lived.html">Suffolk County</a>, Mass.; Barnstable, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/BA-lived.html">Barnstable County</a>, Mass.; Glen Cove, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NA-lived.html">Nassau County</a>, Long Island, N.Y. Born in Boston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/SU-born.html">Suffolk County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1925/11-20.html">November 20, 1925</a>. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Massachusetts, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1956/MA.html">1956</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1960/MA.html">1960</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/cabinet.html">U.S. Attorney General</a>, 1961-64; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from New York</a>, 1965-68; died in office 1968; candidate for Democratic nomination for President, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1968/index.html">1968</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aba.html">American Bar Association</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/vfw.html">Veterans of Foreign Wars</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-legion.html">American Legion</a>. On June 5, 1968, while <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/campaigning.html">running</a> for president, having just won the California presidential primary, was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gunshot.html">shot</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/murder.html">mortally wounded</a> by Sirhan Sirhan, in the Ambassador <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/hotels.html">Hotel</a>, and died the next day in in Good Samaritan <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, Los Angeles, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-died.html">Los Angeles County</a>, Calif., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1968/06-06.html">June 6, 1968</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/42.html">42 years, 199 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/AR-buried.html#cms00004">Arlington National Cemetery</a>, Arlington, Va. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy5.html#318.23.71">Joseph Patrick Kennedy, Sr.</a> and Rose (Fitzgerald) Kennedy; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy5.html#760.31.87">Joseph Patrick Kennedy Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy5.html#288.06.12">John Fitzgerald Kennedy</a>, Eunice Mary Kennedy (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/shorten-shuja.html#007.78.78">Robert Sargent Shriver Jr.</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lawe-lawr.html#377.02.41">Patricia Kennedy Lawford</a> (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lawe-lawr.html#466.04.80">Peter Lawford</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smith5.html#542.75.37">Jean Kennedy Smith</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy3.html#527.91.82">Edward Moore Kennedy</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1950/06-17.html">June 17, 1950</a>, to Ethel Skakel; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/townsend.html#526.60.90">Kathleen Kennedy Townsend</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy5.html#913.28.50">Joseph Patrick Kennedy II</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy7.html#045.38.18">Robert Francis Kennedy Jr.</a> and Kerry Kennedy (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cuomo-curlin.html#246.89.07">Andrew Mark Cuomo</a>); uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy5.html#732.03.83">John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/shorten-shuja.html#926.51.86">Mark Kennedy Shriver</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy7.html#320.92.22">Patrick Joseph Kennedy (born 1967)</a>; grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy7.html#790.83.86">Patrick Joseph Kennedy (1858-1929)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fitzgerald.html#208.89.14">John Francis Fitzgerald</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1041.html">Kennedy family</a> of Boston, Massachusetts (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Cross-reference: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/alt-amersoon.html#231.19.16">Benjamin Altman</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/martin5.html#355.85.43">John Bartlow Martin</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/malster-manly.html#953.75.42">Frank Mankiewicz</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schneiderman-schrock.html#795.37.25">Paul Schrade</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">The Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-buildings.html">Building</a> (opened 1935, renamed 2001), in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-names.html">Washington, D.C.</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=K000114">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=406280">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert F. Kennedy">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/220/000022154">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0448305">Internet Movie Database profile</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/573">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Books about Robert F. Kennedy: Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0345410610/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0345410610&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Robert Kennedy and His Times</a> — Evan Thomas, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0684834804/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0684834804&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Robert Kennedy : His Life</a> — Joseph A. Palermo, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0231120680/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0231120680&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">In His Own Right</a> — Thurston Clarke, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0805077928/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0805077928&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Last Campaign: Robert F. Kennedy and 82 Days That Inspired America</a> — Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0393067254/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0393067254&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Some of It Was Fun: Working with RFK and LBJ</a> — Bill Eppridge, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0810971224/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0810971224&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">A Time it Was: Bobby Kennedy in the Sixties</a> — Mike Resnick, ed., <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0812511925/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0812511925&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Alternate Presidents [anthology]</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Critical books about Robert F. Kennedy: Allen Roberts, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0828318905/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0828318905&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Robert Francis Kennedy: Biography of a Compulsive Politician</a> — Victor Lasky, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0671780131/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0671780131&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">RFK: Myth and Man</a> — Darwin Porter & Danforth Prince, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1936003171/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1936003171&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Kennedys: All the Gossip Unfit for Print</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Eugene Luther Gore Vidal Jr. (1925-2012) — also known as Gore Vidal; Edgar Box; Cameron Kay; Katherine Everard — of Barrytown, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/DU-lived.html">Dutchess County</a>, N.Y.; Ravello, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/IT-lived.html">Italy</a>; Los Angeles, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-lived.html">Los Angeles County</a>, Calif. Born, in the Cadet <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/born-hospital.html">Hospital</a>, U.S. Military Academy, West Point, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/OR-born.html">Orange County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1925/10-03.html">October 3, 1925</a>. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1960/NY.html">1960</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a> 29th District, 1960; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from California</a>, 1982. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/atheist-agnostic.html">Atheist</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/lgbt.html">Bisexual</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/writing.html">Novelist</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/writing.html">playwright</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/writing.html">essayist</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/writing.html">screenwriter</a>, appeared as an <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/entertainment.html">actor</a> in several films. Not actually related to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gore.html#810.21.46">Al Gore</a>, who he refers to as "Cousin Al". Died, from complications of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/pneumonia.html">pneumonia</a>, in Los Angeles, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-died.html">Los Angeles County</a>, Calif., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2012/07-31.html">July 31, 2012</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/86.html">86 years, 302 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-buried.html#cms00376">Rock Creek Cemetery</a>, Washington, D.C. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Eugene Luther Vidal and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/olden-oliven.html#407.85.36">Nina Gore Vidal</a>; half-brother of Nina Gore Auchincloss (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/steelman-steil.html#986.89.07">Newton Ivan Steers Jr.</a>); step-brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/aubert-austen.html#935.03.41">Hugh Dudley Auchincloss III</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/oman-onearm.html#069.92.03">Jaqueline Lee Bouvier</a> (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy5.html#288.06.12">John Fitzgerald Kennedy</a>); grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gore.html#647.57.63">Thomas Pryor Gore</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1041.html">Kennedy family</a> of Boston, Massachusetts (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gore Vidal">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/138/000023069">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000683">Internet Movie Database profile</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/11837">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=20563">OurCampaigns candidate detail</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Books by Gore Vidal: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/156025405X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=156025405X&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace: How We Got To Be So Hated</a> (2002) — <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1560255021/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1560255021&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Dreaming War : Blood for Oil and the Cheney-Bush Junta</a> (2002) — <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/037572639X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=037572639X&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000</a> (2002) — <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0140260897/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0140260897&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Palimpsest: A Memoir</a> (1996) — <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0300101716/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0300101716&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Inventing A Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson</a> (2003)</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Fiction by Gore Vidal: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0140231196/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0140231196&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Live from Golgotha</a> — <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0345329082/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0345329082&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Julian</a> — <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0345340205/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0345340205&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Creation: A Novel</a> — <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0375708766/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0375708766&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Lincoln: A Novel</a> — <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0345339215/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0345339215&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Burr</a> — <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0375708723/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0375708723&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">1876: A Novel</a> — <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/345507961X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=345507961X&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Empire: A Novel</a> — <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0375708758/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0375708758&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Hollywood</a> — <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0375708774/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0375708774&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Washington, D.C.: A Novel</a> — <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0375724818/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0375724818&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Golden Age: A Novel</a> — <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0141180285/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0141180285&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Myra Breckinridge</a> — <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/055305984X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=055305984X&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Two Sisters</a> — <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0141180374/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0141180374&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Kalki</a> — <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0141180420/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0141180420&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Duluth</a> — <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0156006480/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0156006480&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Smithsonian Institution: A Novel</a> — <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1400030374/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1400030374&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The City and the Pillar</a> — <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0226855856/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0226855856&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Williwaw: A Novel</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Hugh Dudley Auchincloss III (1927-2015) — also known as Hugh D. Auchincloss III; Yusha Auchincloss — of Newport, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/NE-lived.html">Newport County</a>, R.I. Born in Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-born.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1927/09-16.html">September 16, 1927</a>. Independent candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/stsen.html">Rhode Island state senate</a> 50th District, 1992. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/cancer.html">cancer</a>, in Newport, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/NE-died.html">Newport County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2015/06-13.html">June 13, 2015</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/87.html">87 years, 270 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/NE-buried.html#cms01071">Island Cemetery</a>, Newport, R.I. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/aubert-austen.html#090.56.97">Hugh Dudley Auchincloss</a> and Maya (de Chrapovitsky) Auchincloss; step-brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/verna-vigorito.html#219.93.05">Eugene Luther Gore Vidal Jr.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/oman-onearm.html#069.92.03">Jaqueline Lee Bouvier</a> (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy5.html#288.06.12">John Fitzgerald Kennedy</a>); grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jennings.html#841.56.54">Oliver Gould Jennings</a>; fourth great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/salmons-salzman.html#676.30.34">Gurdon Saltonstall (1708-1785)</a>; fifth great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/salmons-salzman.html#067.45.90">Gurdon Saltonstall (1666-1724)</a>; sixth great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/winterberg-wisdom.html#711.88.26">Fitz-John Winthrop</a>; seventh great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/winterberg-wisdom.html#563.19.80">John Winthrop (1606-1676)</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/aubert-austen.html#827.15.08">James Coats Auchincloss</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/aubert-austen.html#534.11.05">Gordon Auchincloss</a>; first cousin five times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/winterberg-wisdom.html#032.26.38">Thomas Lindall Winthrop</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/aubert-austen.html#824.74.27">Jacob Daniel Auchincloss</a>; second cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sears.html#749.78.46">David Sears</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/winterberg-wisdom.html#613.51.62">Robert Charles Winthrop</a>; eighth great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/winterberg-wisdom.html#616.31.30">John Winthrop (1588-1649)</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1041.html">Kennedy family</a> of Boston, Massachusetts (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Campaign slogan: "A vote for Hugh is a vote for you."</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/209528837">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=547474">OurCampaigns candidate detail</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Jean Kennedy Smith (1928-2020) — also known as Jean Ann Kennedy — of New York. Born in Boston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/SU-born.html">Suffolk County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1928/02-20.html">February 20, 1928</a>. U.S. Ambassador to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/EI-diplomats.html ">Ireland</a>, 1993-98. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. Died in Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-died.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2020/06-17.html">June 17, 2020</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/92.html">92 years, 118 days</a>). Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Daughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy5.html#318.23.71">Joseph Patrick Kennedy, Sr.</a> and Rose (Fitzgerald) Kennedy; sister of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy5.html#760.31.87">Joseph Patrick Kennedy Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy5.html#288.06.12">John Fitzgerald Kennedy</a> (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/oman-onearm.html#069.92.03">Jaqueline Lee Bouvier</a>), Eunice Mary Kennedy (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/shorten-shuja.html#007.78.78">Robert Sargent Shriver Jr.</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lawe-lawr.html#377.02.41">Patricia Kennedy Lawford</a> (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lawe-lawr.html#466.04.80">Peter Lawford</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy7.html#923.49.98">Robert Francis Kennedy</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy3.html#527.91.82">Edward Moore Kennedy</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1956/05-19.html">May 19, 1956</a>, to Stephen Smith; aunt of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/townsend.html#526.60.90">Kathleen Kennedy Townsend</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy5.html#913.28.50">Joseph Patrick Kennedy II</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy7.html#045.38.18">Robert Francis Kennedy Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy5.html#732.03.83">John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/shorten-shuja.html#926.51.86">Mark Kennedy Shriver</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy7.html#320.92.22">Patrick Joseph Kennedy (born 1967)</a>; granddaughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy7.html#790.83.86">Patrick Joseph Kennedy (1858-1929)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fitzgerald.html#208.89.14">John Francis Fitzgerald</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1041.html">Kennedy family</a> of Boston, Massachusetts (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean Kennedy Smith">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/smith-jean-kennedy ?">U.S. State Dept career summary</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/192/000206571">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0808651">Internet Movie Database profile</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (1929-1994) — also known as Jackie Onassis; Jaqueline Lee Bouvier; Jacqueline Kennedy — of Boston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/SU-lived.html">Suffolk County</a>, Mass.; Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in Southampton <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/born-hospital.html">Hospital</a>, Southampton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/SF-born.html">Suffolk County</a>, Long Island, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1929/07-28.html">July 28, 1929</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/first.html">First Lady of the United States</a>, 1961-63. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>. Longtime companion of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tazewell-temmey.html#085.68.66">Maurice Tempelsman</a>. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/cancer.html">non-Hodgkin lymphoma</a>, in Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-died.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1994/05-19.html">May 19, 1994</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/64.html">64 years, 295 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/AR-buried.html#cms00004">Arlington National Cemetery</a>, Arlington, Va. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Step-daughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/aubert-austen.html#090.56.97">Hugh Dudley Auchincloss</a>; daughter of John Vernou Bouvier and Janet Norton (Lee) Bouvier; step-sister of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/verna-vigorito.html#219.93.05">Eugene Luther Gore Vidal Jr.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/aubert-austen.html#935.03.41">Hugh Dudley Auchincloss III</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1953/09-12.html">September 12, 1953</a>, to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy5.html#288.06.12">John Fitzgerald Kennedy</a> (son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy5.html#318.23.71">Joseph Patrick Kennedy, Sr.</a>; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smith5.html#542.75.37">Jean Kennedy Smith</a>; grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fitzgerald.html#208.89.14">John Francis Fitzgerald</a>); married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1968/">1968</a> to Aristotle Socrates Onassis; mother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy5.html#732.03.83">John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr.</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1041.html">Kennedy family</a> of Boston, Massachusetts (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">The Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-schools.html">High School</a> for International Careers, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-names.html">Manhattan, New York</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for her</a>.  — Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-buildings.html">Hall</a>, at George Washington <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-colleges.html">University</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-names.html">Washington, D.C.</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for her</a>.  — Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-water.html">Reservoir</a>, in Central <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-parks.html">Park</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-names.html">Manhattan, New York</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for her</a>.</li> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/780">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=32168">OurCampaigns candidate detail</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Edward Moore Kennedy (1932-2009) — also known as Edward M. Kennedy; Ted Kennedy; "Lion of the Senate" — of Boston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/SU-lived.html">Suffolk County</a>, Mass. Born, in St. Margaret's <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/born-hospital.html">Hospital</a>, Dorchester, Boston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/SU-born.html">Suffolk County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1932/02-22.html">February 22, 1932</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Massachusetts</a>, 1962-2009; died in office 2009; candidate for Democratic nomination for President, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1980/index.html">1980</a>; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Massachusetts, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1996/MA.html">1996</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2000/MA.html">2000</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2004/MA.html">2004</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2008/MA.html">2008</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/irish.html">Irish</a> ancestry. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Pleaded guilty</a> to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/traffic.html">leaving the scene of an accident</a> after his car plunged off the Dike Bridge, on Chappaquiddick Island, Massachusetts, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/murder-mayhem.html">killing</a> passenger Mary Jo Kopechne, on July 18, 1969. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/brain-cancer.html">brain cancer</a>, in Hyannis Port, Barnstable, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/BA-died.html">Barnstable County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2009/08-25.html">August 25, 2009</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/77.html">77 years, 184 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/AR-buried.html#cms00004">Arlington National Cemetery</a>, Arlington, Va. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy5.html#318.23.71">Joseph Patrick Kennedy, Sr.</a> and Rose (Fitzgerald) Kennedy; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy5.html#760.31.87">Joseph Patrick Kennedy Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy5.html#288.06.12">John Fitzgerald Kennedy</a>, Eunice Mary Kennedy (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/shorten-shuja.html#007.78.78">Robert Sargent Shriver Jr.</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lawe-lawr.html#377.02.41">Patricia Kennedy Lawford</a> (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lawe-lawr.html#466.04.80">Peter Lawford</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy7.html#923.49.98">Robert Francis Kennedy</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smith5.html#542.75.37">Jean Kennedy Smith</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1958/11-30.html">November 30, 1958</a>, to Virginia Joan Bennett (divorced 1982); married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1992/07-03.html">July 3, 1992</a>, to Victoria Anne Reggie (daughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/refermat-reickenback.html#813.34.15">Edmund M. Reggie</a>); married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1958/11-29.html">November 29, 1958</a>, to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy5.html#859.18.92">Virginia Joan Bennett (born 1936)</a>; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy7.html#320.92.22">Patrick Joseph Kennedy (born 1967)</a>; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/townsend.html#526.60.90">Kathleen Kennedy Townsend</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy5.html#913.28.50">Joseph Patrick Kennedy II</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy7.html#045.38.18">Robert Francis Kennedy Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy5.html#732.03.83">John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/shorten-shuja.html#926.51.86">Mark Kennedy Shriver</a>; grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy7.html#790.83.86">Patrick Joseph Kennedy (1858-1929)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fitzgerald.html#208.89.14">John Francis Fitzgerald</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1041.html">Kennedy family</a> of Boston, Massachusetts (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Cross-reference: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/choate-chrisman.html#551.02.50">Murray M. Chotiner</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=K000105">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=300059">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted Kennedy">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/623/000023554">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0448356">Internet Movie Database profile</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/41159008">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=200">OurCampaigns candidate detail</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Books by Edward M. Kennedy: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0446539252/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0446539252&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">True Compass: A Memoir</a> (2009)</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Books about Edward M. Kennedy: Adam Clymer, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060957875/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0060957875&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Edward M. Kennedy: A Biography</a> — Richard E. Burke, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0312304668/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0312304668&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Senator : My Ten Years With Ted Kennedy</a> — Peter S. Canellos, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1439138176/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1439138176&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Last Lion: The Fall and Rise of Ted Kennedy</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Critical books about Edward M. Kennedy: Bernard Goldberg, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060761288/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0060761288&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">100 People Who Are Screwing Up America (And Al Franken Is #37)</a> — Darwin Porter & Danforth Prince, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1936003171/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1936003171&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Kennedys: All the Gossip Unfit for Print</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Joan Bennett Kennedy (b. 1936) — also known as Virginia Joan Bennett; Mrs. Edward M. Kennedy — of Boston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/SU-lived.html">Suffolk County</a>, Mass. Born in Riverdale, Bronx, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/BX-born.html">Bronx County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1936/09-02.html">September 2, 1936</a>. Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Massachusetts, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1964/MA.html">1964</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. Still living as of 2008. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Daughter of Henry Wiggin Bennett, Jr. and Virginia Joan (Stead) Bennett; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1958/11-29.html">November 29, 1958</a>, to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy3.html#527.91.82">Edward Moore Kennedy</a> (brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy5.html#288.06.12">John Fitzgerald Kennedy</a>); mother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy7.html#320.92.22">Patrick Joseph Kennedy</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1041.html">Kennedy family</a> of Boston, Massachusetts (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan Bennett Kennedy">Wikipedia article</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger (b. 1947) — also known as Arnold Schwarzenegger; "Arnie"; "Conan the Republican"; "The Governator"; "The Austrian Oak" — of Brentwood, Los Angeles, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-lived.html">Los Angeles County</a>, Calif. Born in Thal, Styria, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/AS-born.html">Austria</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1947/07-30.html">July 30, 1947</a>. Republican. Naturalized U.S. citizen; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/entertainment.html">actor</a> in numerous <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/entertainment.html">movies</a>, including Pumping Iron, the Terminator series, Conan the Barbarian, Predator, Total Recall, and others; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/ofc/gov.html">Governor of California</a>, 2003-11; Republican candidate for Presidential Elector for California, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/ofc/pr2004-election.html">2004</a> (on behalf of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bush.html#874.74.60">George W. Bush</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cheney.html#063.64.84">Richard B. Cheney</a>); he and his wife <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">separated</a> in 2011 after revealing that his <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/sex-crimes-scandals.html">sexual contact</a> with a member of his household staff resulted in a child ten years earlier. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/austro-hungarian.html">Austrian</a> ancestry. Still living as of 2022. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Gustav Schwarzenegger and Aurelia (Jadrny) Schwarzenegger; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1986/04-26.html">April 26, 1986</a>, to Maria Owings Shriver (daughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/shorten-shuja.html#007.78.78">Robert Sargent Shriver Jr.</a>; sister of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/shorten-shuja.html#926.51.86">Mark Kennedy Shriver</a>; niece of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy5.html#288.06.12">John Fitzgerald Kennedy</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1041.html">Kennedy family</a> of Boston, Massachusetts (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/arnold-schwarzenegger/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold Schwarzenegger">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/685/000022619">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000216">Internet Movie Database profile</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=6394">OurCampaigns candidate detail</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Books by Arnold Schwarzenegger: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0671797484/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0671797484&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Arnold : The Education of a Bodybuilder</a> (1977) — <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1451662432/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1451662432&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story</a> (2012)</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Books about Arnold Schwarzenegger: Nigel Andrews, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1582344655/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1582344655&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">True Myths : The Life and Times of Arnold Schwarzenegger, from Pumping Iron to Governor of California</a> — Susan Zannos, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1883845955/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1883845955&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Arnold Schwarzenegger</a> — Laurence Leamer, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0312333382/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0312333382&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Fantastic : The Life of Arnold Schwarzenegger</a> — Michael Blitz & Louise Krasniewicz, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0465037526/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0465037526&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Why Arnold Matters: The Rise of a Cultural Icon</a> — Ian Halperin, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0061990043/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0061990043&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Governator: From Muscle Beach to His Quest for the White House, the Improbable Rise of Arnold Schwarzenegger</a> — Colleen A. Sexton, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0822522233/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0822522233&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Arnold Schwarzenegger</a> (for young readers)</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Kathleen Kennedy Townsend (b. 1951) — also known as Kathleen Hartington Kennedy — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/BL-lived.html">Baltimore County</a>, Md. Born in Greenwich, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-born.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1951/07-04.html">July 4, 1951</a>. Democrat. Candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Maryland</a> 2nd District, 1986; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Maryland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1988/MD.html">1988</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1996/MD.html">1996</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2000/MD.html">2000</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2004/MD.html">2004</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2008/MD.html">2008</a>; Democratic Presidential Elector for Maryland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/ofc/pr1992-meeting.html">1992</a> (voted for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clinton.html#673.06.95">Bill Clinton</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gore.html#810.21.46">Al Gore</a>); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/ofc/ltgov.html">Lieutenant Governor of Maryland</a>, 1995-2003; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Maryland</a>, 2002. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. Still living as of 2024. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Daughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy7.html#923.49.98">Robert Francis Kennedy</a> and Ethel (Skakel) Kennedy; sister of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy5.html#913.28.50">Joseph Patrick Kennedy II</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy7.html#045.38.18">Robert Francis Kennedy Jr.</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1973/11-17.html">November 17, 1973</a>, to David Lee Townsend; niece of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy5.html#760.31.87">Joseph Patrick Kennedy Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy5.html#288.06.12">John Fitzgerald Kennedy</a>, Eunice Mary Kennedy (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/shorten-shuja.html#007.78.78">Robert Sargent Shriver Jr.</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lawe-lawr.html#377.02.41">Patricia Kennedy Lawford</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smith5.html#542.75.37">Jean Kennedy Smith</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy3.html#527.91.82">Edward Moore Kennedy</a>; granddaughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy5.html#318.23.71">Joseph Patrick Kennedy, Sr.</a>; great-granddaughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy7.html#790.83.86">Patrick Joseph Kennedy (1858-1929)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fitzgerald.html#208.89.14">John Francis Fitzgerald</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy5.html#732.03.83">John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/shorten-shuja.html#926.51.86">Mark Kennedy Shriver</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy7.html#320.92.22">Patrick Joseph Kennedy (born 1967)</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1041.html">Kennedy family</a> of Boston, Massachusetts (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathleen Kennedy Townsend">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/592/000206971">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1195089">Internet Movie Database profile</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Joseph Patrick Kennedy II (b. 1952) — also known as Joseph P. Kennedy II — of Boston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/SU-lived.html">Suffolk County</a>, Mass. Born in Brighton, Boston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/SU-born.html">Suffolk County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1952/09-24.html">September 24, 1952</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Massachusetts</a> 8th District, 1987-99; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Massachusetts, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1996/MA.html">1996</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>. Still living as of 2014. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy7.html#923.49.98">Robert Francis Kennedy</a>; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/townsend.html#526.60.90">Kathleen Kennedy Townsend</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy7.html#045.38.18">Robert Francis Kennedy Jr.</a>; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy5.html#760.31.87">Joseph Patrick Kennedy Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy5.html#288.06.12">John Fitzgerald Kennedy</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lawe-lawr.html#377.02.41">Patricia Kennedy Lawford</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smith5.html#542.75.37">Jean Kennedy Smith</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy3.html#527.91.82">Edward Moore Kennedy</a>; grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy5.html#318.23.71">Joseph Patrick Kennedy, Sr.</a>; great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy7.html#790.83.86">Patrick Joseph Kennedy (1858-1929)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fitzgerald.html#208.89.14">John Francis Fitzgerald</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy5.html#732.03.83">John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/shorten-shuja.html#926.51.86">Mark Kennedy Shriver</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy7.html#320.92.22">Patrick Joseph Kennedy (born 1967)</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1041.html">Kennedy family</a> of Boston, Massachusetts (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=K000110">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=406277">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/682/000207061">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0448130">Internet Movie Database profile</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Robert Francis Kennedy Jr. (b. 1954) — also known as Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. — Born, in Georgetown University <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/born-hospital.html">Hospital</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-born.html">Washington</a>, D.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1954/01-17.html">January 17, 1954</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; in September 1983, he was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> with <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/illegal-drugs.html">heroin possession</a> in Rapid City, S.D.; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">pleaded guilty</a>, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to two years <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">probation</a>; in May, 2001, while <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/protest.html">protesting</a> at Camp Garcia Vieques, a U.S. Navy facility in Puerto Rico, he and others were <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">arrested</a> for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/other-crimes.html">trespassing</a>; he was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">convicted</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">sentenced</a> to 30 days in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">prison</a>; Independent candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/pres-vp.html">President of the United States</a>, 2024. Still living as of 2024. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy7.html#923.49.98">Robert Francis Kennedy</a> and Ethel (Skakel) Kennedy; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/townsend.html#526.60.90">Kathleen Kennedy Townsend</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy5.html#913.28.50">Joseph Patrick Kennedy II</a>; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1982/">1982</a> to Emily Black; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1994/04-15.html">April 15, 1994</a>, to Mary Kathleen Richardson; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2014/">2014</a> to Cheryl Hines; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy5.html#760.31.87">Joseph Patrick Kennedy Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy5.html#288.06.12">John Fitzgerald Kennedy</a>, Eunice Mary Kennedy (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/shorten-shuja.html#007.78.78">Robert Sargent Shriver Jr.</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lawe-lawr.html#377.02.41">Patricia Kennedy Lawford</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smith5.html#542.75.37">Jean Kennedy Smith</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy3.html#527.91.82">Edward Moore Kennedy</a>; grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy5.html#318.23.71">Joseph Patrick Kennedy, Sr.</a>; great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy7.html#790.83.86">Patrick Joseph Kennedy (1858-1929)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fitzgerald.html#208.89.14">John Francis Fitzgerald</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy5.html#732.03.83">John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/shorten-shuja.html#926.51.86">Mark Kennedy Shriver</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy7.html#320.92.22">Patrick Joseph Kennedy (born 1967)</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1041.html">Kennedy family</a> of Boston, Massachusetts (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert F. Kennedy Jr.">Wikipedia article</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Andrew Mark Cuomo (b. 1957) — also known as Andrew M. Cuomo — of Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in Queens, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/QU-born.html">Queens County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1957/12-06.html">December 6, 1957</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/cabinet.html">U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development</a>, 1997-2001; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/attygn.html">New York state attorney general</a>, 2007-10; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2008/NY.html">2008</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/gov.html">Governor of New York</a>, 2011-21; Democratic Presidential Elector for New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/pr2012-election.html">2012</a> (elected on behalf of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/oakman-obrian.html#539.70.25">Barack Obama</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biden-biged.html#109.77.03">Joseph R. Biden, Jr.</a>; did not serve); Democratic Presidential Elector for New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/pr2016-meeting.html">2016</a> (voted for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clinton.html#754.43.91">Hillary Clinton</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kabzinski-kanczuzewski.html#258.17.10">Tim Kaine</a>); Democratic Presidential Elector for New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/pr2020-meeting.html">2020</a> (voted for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/biden-biged.html#109.77.03">Joseph R. Biden, Jr.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/harris6.html#165.81.40">Kamala D. Harris</a>); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">resigned</a> as Governor following an <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">investigation</a> which showed he had <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/sex-crimes-scandals.html">sexually harassed</a> at least eleven women; a criminal complaint against him was dismissed. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/italian.html">Italian</a> ancestry. Still living as of 2024. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Matilda (Raffa) Cuomo and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cuomo-curlin.html#767.23.66">Mario Matthew Cuomo</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1990/06-09.html">June 9, 1990</a>, to Kerry Kennedy (daughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy7.html#923.49.98">Robert Francis Kennedy</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1041.html">Kennedy family</a> of Boston, Massachusetts (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/andrew-cuomo/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew Cuomo">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/820/000055655">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2241072">Internet Movie Database profile</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. (1960-1999) — also known as John F. Kennedy, Jr.; "John-John"; "The American Son" — of Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-born.html">Washington</a>, D.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1960/11-25.html">November 25, 1960</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1988 /speakers.html">speaker</a>, Democratic National Convention, 1988 ; founder, George <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">magazine</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>. Killed, along with his wife and sister-in-law, in a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/aircraft.html">plane crash</a>, near Martha's Vineyard, in the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WW/AT-died.html">North Atlantic Ocean</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1999/07-16.html">July 16, 1999</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/38.html">38 years, 233 days</a>). <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/plcrem.html">Cremated</a>; ashes scattered in North Atlantic Ocean. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy5.html#288.06.12">John Fitzgerald Kennedy</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/oman-onearm.html#069.92.03">Jacqueline Kennedy</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1996/09-21.html">September 21, 1996</a>, to Carolyn Jeanne Bessette; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy5.html#760.31.87">Joseph Patrick Kennedy Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lawe-lawr.html#377.02.41">Patricia Kennedy Lawford</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy7.html#923.49.98">Robert Francis Kennedy</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smith5.html#542.75.37">Jean Kennedy Smith</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy3.html#527.91.82">Edward Moore Kennedy</a>; grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy5.html#318.23.71">Joseph Patrick Kennedy, Sr.</a>; great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy7.html#790.83.86">Patrick Joseph Kennedy (1858-1929)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fitzgerald.html#208.89.14">John Francis Fitzgerald</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/townsend.html#526.60.90">Kathleen Kennedy Townsend</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy5.html#913.28.50">Joseph Patrick Kennedy II</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy7.html#045.38.18">Robert Francis Kennedy Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/shorten-shuja.html#926.51.86">Mark Kennedy Shriver</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy7.html#320.92.22">Patrick Joseph Kennedy (born 1967)</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1041.html">Kennedy family</a> of Boston, Massachusetts (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John F. Kennedy, Jr.">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/647/000030557">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0447882">Internet Movie Database profile</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/5947">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Mark Kennedy Shriver (b. 1964) — of West Bethesda, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/MO-lived.html">Montgomery County</a>, Md. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-born.html">Washington</a>, D.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1964/02-17.html">February 17, 1964</a>. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/ofc/sthse.html">Maryland state house of delegates</a> District 15, 1995-; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Maryland</a> 8th District, 2002. Still living as of 2002. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/shorten-shuja.html#007.78.78">Robert Sargent Shriver Jr.</a> and Eunice (Kennedy) Shriver; sister of Maria Owings Shriver (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schwartzenburg-scotland.html#152.99.32">Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger</a>); nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy5.html#760.31.87">Joseph Patrick Kennedy Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy5.html#288.06.12">John Fitzgerald Kennedy</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lawe-lawr.html#377.02.41">Patricia Kennedy Lawford</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy7.html#923.49.98">Robert Francis Kennedy</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smith5.html#542.75.37">Jean Kennedy Smith</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy3.html#527.91.82">Edward Moore Kennedy</a>; grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy5.html#318.23.71">Joseph Patrick Kennedy, Sr.</a>; grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/shorten-shuja.html#313.57.61">James Causten Shriver</a>; great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/shorten-shuja.html#848.81.35">Thomas Herbert Shriver</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy7.html#790.83.86">Patrick Joseph Kennedy (1858-1929)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fitzgerald.html#208.89.14">John Francis Fitzgerald</a>; second great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/perry.html#769.05.51">Thomas Johns Perry</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/townsend.html#526.60.90">Kathleen Kennedy Townsend</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy5.html#913.28.50">Joseph Patrick Kennedy II</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy7.html#045.38.18">Robert Francis Kennedy Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy5.html#732.03.83">John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy7.html#320.92.22">Patrick Joseph Kennedy (born 1967)</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1041.html">Kennedy family</a> of Boston, Massachusetts (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Patrick Joseph Kennedy (b. 1967) — also known as Patrick J. Kennedy — of Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-lived.html">Providence County</a>, R.I.; Portsmouth, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/NE-lived.html">Newport County</a>, R.I. Born in Brighton, Boston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/SU-born.html">Suffolk County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1967/07-14.html">July 14, 1967</a>. Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Rhode Island, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1988/RI.html">1988</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1996/RI.html">1996</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2000/RI.html">2000</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2004/RI.html">2004</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2008/RI.html">2008</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/sthse.html">Rhode Island state house of representatives</a>, 1988-94; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Rhode Island</a> 1st District, 1995-; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">pleaded guilty</a> in 2006 to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charges</a> of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/traffic.html">driving</a> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/intoxication.html">under the influence</a> of prescription drugs. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>. Still living as of 2014. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy3.html#527.91.82">Edward Moore Kennedy</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy5.html#859.18.92">Joan Bennett Kennedy</a>; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy5.html#760.31.87">Joseph Patrick Kennedy Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy5.html#288.06.12">John Fitzgerald Kennedy</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lawe-lawr.html#377.02.41">Patricia Kennedy Lawford</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy7.html#923.49.98">Robert Francis Kennedy</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smith5.html#542.75.37">Jean Kennedy Smith</a>; grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy5.html#318.23.71">Joseph Patrick Kennedy, Sr.</a>; great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy7.html#790.83.86">Patrick Joseph Kennedy (1858-1929)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fitzgerald.html#208.89.14">John Francis Fitzgerald</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/townsend.html#526.60.90">Kathleen Kennedy Townsend</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy5.html#913.28.50">Joseph Patrick Kennedy II</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy7.html#045.38.18">Robert Francis Kennedy Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kennedy5.html#732.03.83">John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/shorten-shuja.html#926.51.86">Mark Kennedy Shriver</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1041.html">Kennedy family</a> of Boston, Massachusetts (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=K000113">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=400215">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick J. Kennedy">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/092/000026014">NNDB dossier</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Books about Patrick Kennedy: Darrell M. West, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/013017694X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=013017694X&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Patrick Kennedy : The Rise to Power</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Jacob Daniel Auchincloss (b. 1988) — also known as Jake Auchincloss — of Newton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/MI-lived.html">Middlesex County</a>, Mass. Born in Boston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/SU-born.html">Suffolk County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1988/01-29.html">January 29, 1988</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Massachusetts</a> 4th District, 2021-. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/jewish.html">Jewish</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/scottish.html">Scottish</a> ancestry. Still living as of 2024. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Hugh Auchincloss and Laurie Glimcher; great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/aubert-austen.html#827.15.08">James Coats Auchincloss</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/aubert-austen.html#534.11.05">Gordon Auchincloss</a>; third great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sloan.html#196.70.84">Samuel Sloan</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bully-bunker.html#557.56.63">Solomon Bundy</a>; sixth great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/salmons-salzman.html#676.30.34">Gurdon Saltonstall (1708-1785)</a>; seventh great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/salmons-salzman.html#067.45.90">Gurdon Saltonstall (1666-1724)</a>; first cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/aubert-austen.html#090.56.97">Hugh Dudley Auchincloss</a>; first cousin seven times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/winterberg-wisdom.html#032.26.38">Thomas Lindall Winthrop</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/aubert-austen.html#935.03.41">Hugh Dudley Auchincloss III</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1041.html">Kennedy family</a> of Boston, Massachusetts (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=A000148">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jake Auchincloss">Wikipedia article</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> </td> <td width=180 align="center" valign="center"> </td></tr></table> <hr> <table width=100%> <tr><td align="center"> "Enjoy the hospitable entertainment of a political graveyard." 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Founded in 1996, it is the Internet's most comprehensive free source for American political biography, listing 338,260 politicians, living and dead.</td></tr> <tr><td colspan=3> </td></tr> <tr><td width=32 align="right" valign="top"> </td> <td valign="top"> <img src="rd.gif" width=10 height=10> The coverage of this site includes (1) the President, Vice President, members of Congress, elected state and territorial officeholders in all fifty states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories; and the chief elected official, typically the mayor, of qualifying municipalities; (2) candidates at election, including primaries, for any of the above; (3) all federal judges and all state appellate judges; (4) certain federal officials, including the federal cabinet, diplomatic chiefs of mission, consuls, U.S. district attorneys, collectors of customs and internal revenue, members of major federal commissions; and political appointee (pre-1969) postmasters of qualifying communities; (5) state and national political party officials, including delegates, alternate delegates, and other participants in national party nominating conventions; (6) Americans who served as "honorary" consuls for other nations before 1950. 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