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| Affiliation | Democratic |
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2009-01-03 |
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| Name | Patrick J. Kennedy |
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Brigantine, New Jersey , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | None |
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July 14, 1967
(56 years)
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| Contributor | Barack O-blame-a |
| Last Modifed | RBH
Feb 22, 2023 04:47pm |
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| Info | Congressman Patrick J. Kennedy, 35, was re-elected to serve a fourth term in Congress in November 2000 as the representative from the First District of Rhode Island. He received 67 percent of the vote, winning all 20 cities and towns in the district for the third election in a row.
Congressman Kennedy made the decision early to continue his family's tradition of public service. A graduate of Phillips Academy in Andover, MA, Kennedy came to Rhode Island to attend Providence College where he received his degree in Social Science in 1991.
While at Providence College, Kennedy became politically active, first helping to revive the college's Young Democrats' organization, and then, in March 1988, winning election as a Democratic National Convention delegate committed to Presidential candidate Michael Dukakis.
In the Democratic primary in September 1988, at the age of 21, he unseated a five-term incumbent in the Rhode Island House of Representatives, becoming the youngest Kennedy family member ever to win office. Representing District 9, comprised of the Mount Pleasant and Elmhurst neighborhoods of Providence, Kennedy was re-elected in 1990 and 1992.
As a member of the Rhode Island House, he served on both the Health, Education and Welfare and Special Legislative Committees. In 1992, he was named Chairman of the House Rules Committee and championed reform and open government in the General Assembly. He was a leader on gun control issues, sponsoring the state's seven-day waiting period for gun purchases.
In November 1994, he defeated Republican Kevin Vigilante to win an open seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. At the age of 27, he was the youngest member elected to Congress that year.
Kennedy served three terms on both the House Armed Services Committee and the Resources Committee.
In December 1998, he was appointed to the House Appropriations Committee, but requested a leave of absence in order to fulfill a two-year term as the chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. He remained a member of the Armed Services and Resources Committee while overseeing the operations of the DCCC, the Democrats' campaign and political arm.
In January 2001, Kennedy assumed his seat on the Appropriations Committee, which has the authority over all of the federal government's discretionary spending. As part of his Appropriations duties, Kennedy sits on the Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and on the Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, and Judiciary.
Kennedy, who is single, was born on July 14, 1967, in Brighton, Mass. He recently moved into a new home in Portsmouth. He is the youngest of three children of Senator Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) and Joan Bennett Kennedy.
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