Ambrose Kennedy (politician)

Ambrose Kennedy

Ambrose Kennedy (born December 1, 1875 in Blackstone , Worcester County , Massachusetts , † March 10, 1967 in Woonsocket , Rhode Island ) was an American politician . Between 1913 and 1923 he represented the third constituency of the state of Rhode Island in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Ambrose Kennedy attended public schools in Blackstone and St. Hyacinthe's College in the Canadian province of Québec . He continued his education at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester , where he graduated in 1897. In the following years Kennedy himself was active in the school service. Between 1898 and 1904 he taught at Blackstone High School and between 1906 and 1908 he was a school councilor. In between he studied law at Boston University until 1906 . After his admission to the bar, he started working in his new profession in Woonsocket.

Kennedy became a member of the Republican Party . Between 1909 and 1913 he was on the staff of Governor Aram J. Pothier . Between 1911 and 1913 he was also a member of the House of Representatives from Rhode Island ; in 1912 he was speaker of the house. In 1912 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington in the newly created third district of Rhode Island . Kennedy took up his mandate in Congress on March 4, 1913 and was able to exercise it until March 3, 1923 after four re-elections.

For the elections of 1922 he decided not to run again. After his tenure in Congress ended, Kennedy withdrew from politics. He returned to practice as a lawyer in the decades that followed and died in Woonsocket in 1967. He was buried in the graveyard of his native Blackstone.

Web links

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

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