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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New YorkRobert Francis KENNEDY
(1925-1968)
Senate Years of Service:
1965-1968Party: DemocratKENNEDY, Robert Francis,
(brother of John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Edward Moore Kennedy,
grandson of John Francis Fitzgerald, uncle of Patrick J. Kennedy,
and father of Joseph Patrick Kennedy II), a Senator from New York;
born in Boston, Suffolk County, Mass., November 20, 1925; graduated
from Milton (Mass.) Academy; served in the United States Navy
Reserve 1944-1946; graduated from Harvard University in 1948 and
from the University of Virginia Law School in 1951; admitted to the
Massachusetts bar in 1951; attorney, Criminal Division, Department
of Justice 1951-1952; campaign manager for John F. Kennedy’s
election to the United States Senate in 1952; assistant counsel,
Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations 1953; assistant
counsel, Hoover Commission 1953; chief counsel to the minority,
Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations 1954, and chief
counsel and staff director 1955; chief counsel of Senate Select
Committee on Improper Activities in the Labor or Management Field
1957-1960; campaign manager for John F. Kennedy’s election to
the Presidency in 1960; Attorney General of the United States from
January 1961, until his resignation September 3, 1964, to be a
candidate for the United States Senate; elected as a Democrat from
New York to the United States Senate and served from January 3,
1965, until his death; died from the effects of an assassin’s
bullet at Los Angeles, Calif., June 6, 1968, while campaigning for
the Democratic presidential nomination; interment in Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
Bibliography
Dictionary of American Biography; The Yale Biographical
Dictionary of American Law; Palermo, Joseph A. In His Own
Right: The Political Odyssey of Senator Robert F. Kennedy. New
York: Columbia University Press, 2001; Thomas, Evan. Robert
Kennedy: His Life. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000;
Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr. Robert Kennedy and His Times. 2
vols. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1978.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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