Ambrose Jerome Kennedy

Ambrose Jerome Kennedy (1939)

Ambrose Jerome Kennedy (born January 6, 1893 in Baltimore , Maryland , †  August 29, 1950 ibid) was an American politician . Between 1932 and 1941 he represented the state of Maryland in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Ambrose Kennedy attended public schools in his hometown as well as Calvert Hall College and the Polytechnic Institute in Baltimore. Between 1909 and 1924 he worked for an insurance company. After that he was also active in the stock exchange business. At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Democratic Party . In 1918 he ran unsuccessfully for the Maryland House of Representatives . Between 1922 and 1926, Kennedy was a member of the Baltimore City Council. He served in the Maryland Senate in 1928 and 1929 . In 1928 and 1932 he took part as a delegate at the respective Democratic National Conventions . Since 1929 he was the Maryland pardon commissioner.

After the death of MP John Charles Linthicum , Kennedy was elected as his successor to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC at the by-election due for the fourth seat of Maryland , where he took up his new mandate on November 8, 1932. After three re-elections, he could remain in Congress until January 3, 1941 . During this time, most of the federal government's New Deal laws were passed under President Franklin D. Roosevelt . Kennedy had chaired the Committee on Claims since 1933 . In 1940 he was no longer nominated for re-election by his party.

After his time in the US House of Representatives, Kennedy returned to working in the insurance industry and in stock market trading. Between 1943 and 1945 he was a member of the Maryland State Unemployment Commission. He died on August 29, 1950 in Baltimore, where he was also buried.

Web links

• Ambrose Jerome Kennedy in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Ambrose Jerome Kennedy in the database of Find a Grave (English)