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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MarylandAmbrose Jerome KENNEDY
(1893-1950)
KENNEDY, Ambrose Jerome, a
Representative from Maryland; born in Baltimore Md., January 6,
1893; attended parochial schools, Calvert Hall College, and
Polytechnic Institute in Baltimore, Md.; employed as a clerk for an
insurance company 1909-1924; engaged in the brokerage and insurance
business in 1924; unsuccessful candidate for election to the State
house of representatives in 1918; member of the city council
1922-1926; served in the State senate in 1928 and 1929; delegate to
the Democratic National Conventions in 1928 and 1932; appointed
parole commissioner of Maryland in 1929 and served until elected to
Congress; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-second Congress to
fill the vacancy caused by the death of J. Charles Linthicum and on
the same day was elected to the Seventy-third Congress; reelected
to the Seventy-fourth, Seventy-fifth, and Seventy-sixth Congresses
and served from November 8, 1932, to January 3, 1941; chairman,
Committee on Claims (Seventy-fourth, Seventy-fifth, and
Seventy-sixth Congresses); unsuccessful candidate for renomination
in 1940; resumed the brokerage and insurance business in Baltimore,
Md.; member of the State Unemployment Compensation Board from June
1943 to September 1945; died in Baltimore, Md., August 29, 1950;
interment in the New Cathedral Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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