Joseph Patrick Kennedy III

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Joseph Patrick Kennedy (2019)

Joseph Patrick "Joe" Kennedy (born October 4, 1980 in Boston , Massachusetts ) is an American politician of the Democratic Party . The lawyer from the Kennedy family has represented the 4th congressional constituency of Massachusetts in the House of Representatives of the United States since 2013 . After long talks for other positions, including the United States Senate , Kennedy announced in September 2019 that he would apply for the seat held by his party colleague Ed Markey and challenge it in the internal party primaries.

Family, education and work

Joseph Kennedy was born in the Boston borough of Brighton and is the son of Joseph Patrick Kennedy II , grandson of Robert F. Kennedy and great-nephew of John F. Kennedy . Growing up with his twin brother, his father was a member of the United States House of Representatives for the 8th Congressional District of Massachusetts. Mother Sheila Brewster Rauch moved out when he was nine years old, and two years later the parents divorced amid media attention. The brothers went to the prestigious Buckingham Browne & Nichols School . He first studied industrial engineering at Stanford University , where he received his bachelor's degree in 2003 . From 2004 to 2006 he served in the Peace Corps in the Dominican Republic . He then studied law at Harvard Law School , which he graduated with a Juris Doctor in 2009 .

He then went on to work as a financial analyst and served as an assistant district attorney in Middlesex County from 2011 to 2012 .

Kennedy has been married since December 2012; he met his wife Lauren, a health policy expert, in a lecture at Harvard Law School with Elizabeth Warren . You have two children; the family lives in Newton , Massachusetts.

Political career

After returning from the Dominican Republic, Kennedy worked in his great-uncle Edward Kennedy's campaign for the 2006 Senate election .

United States House of Representatives

In February 2012, Kennedy announced that he was running for the 2012 election to succeed Barney Frank, who was no longer running, in the United States House of Representatives . With 61 to 36 percent of the vote, he prevailed in the 4th Congressional constituency of Massachusetts against the Republican Sean Bielat and has been a member of the House of Representatives since January 3, 2013. He thus ended the phase after the death of Edward Kennedy in 2009, in which - for the first time since 1947 - no member of the Kennedy family sat in Congress . In the 2014 , 2016 and 2018 elections , he was re-elected with a clear lead, most recently in 2018 with 97.7% of the vote without an opposing candidate. Kennedy is considered to be well connected in his party and has a large donor network. His universally known family name is of use to him in election campaigns, as is a Kennedy nostalgia that still exists in Massachusetts, according to Politico . He is running for re-election in 2020 in his congressional electoral district.

In Congress , Kennedy was a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee and the Science Committee . For the 115th Congress from 2017 to 2019, he was a member of the Committee on Energy and Trade and three of its sub-committees. Instead of looking for the limelight with his celebrities, Kennedy earned the reputation of a cautious worker who advocates the interests of his constituency in the south of the state. Kennedy votes against the Trump administration in most cases , in the 115th Congress in over 82, in the 116th Congress (until July 2019) in over 97 percent of the votes.

Positions and ambitions

In July 2016, Kennedy made public his considerations to apply for the seat in the US Senate for Massachusetts, should the Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton choose the current mandate holder Elizabeth Warren as running mate . Kennedy stated several times that if there was a vacancy - both US Senators from Massachusetts belong to the Democratic Party - he would be interested in running for the Senate. Warren is running in the party's primary election for the 2020 presidential election .

Some of Kennedy's speeches during Donald Trump's presidency went viral on social media, including on key issues such as health policy and hate speech , which earned him widespread support among grassroots Democrats. This is one of the reasons why he is considered an aspiring figure in his party. In January 2018, he gave the answer to Donald Trump's first State of the Union Address for the Democratic Party , a traditionally prestigious but risky role for the respective opposition party due to the great attention and bad experiences. In it, he spoke out against a policy of fear and division with an inclusive rhetoric that, according to New York magazine, was reminiscent of Barack Obama .

In August 2019, Politico reported on efforts within the Democratic Party to get Kennedy to challenge progressive US Senator Ed Markey , who is up for re- election in the 2020 election. The initiative set up a website and a Facebook group and is an expression of the generational tension within the party; the at the time 38-year-old Kennedy would face the 73-year-old Markey after, among other things in the code for the House of Representatives election in 2018 the longtime deputy from Massachusetts Mike Capuano of Ayanna Pressley was defeated. According to the New York Times , Kennedy was considering a Markey pre-election challenge and commissioned a poll to determine his chances of winning. In September 2019 he officially announced his candidacy.

Web links

Commons : Joseph P. Kennedy III  - Collection of Images, Videos, and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rep. Joe Kennedy formally Announces US Senate campaign. September 21, 2019, accessed October 25, 2019 .
  2. ^ A b Matt Viser: Meet the Next President Kennedy. In: Town & Country , July 6, 2017.
  3. ↑ Joe Kennedy III's Biography. In: Vote Smart
  4. ↑ a b c d Heather Caygle: The next Kennedy weighs his next move. In: Politico , September 3, 2017.
  5. ^ A b Caroline Hallemann: Who Is Massachusetts Representative Joe Kennedy III? In: Town & Country , January 30, 2018.
  6. ↑ Kennedy, III, Joseph P. In: Our Campaigns.
  7. ↑ a b Stephanie Murray: Joe Kennedy-for-Senate backers mount drive to drum out Ed Markey. In: Politico , August 16, 2019.
  8. ↑ Congress Trump Score: Joseph P. Kennedy III. In: FiveThirtyEight .
  9. ^ Kyle Scott Clauss: Kennedy Says He'd Consider a Senate Run If Warren Tapped for VP. In: Boston Magazine , July 1, 2016.
  10. ↑ Margaret Hartmann: Joe Kennedy Pulls Off a Rare Feat: A SOTU Response That's Actually Good. In: New York , January 30, 2018
  11. ↑ Ron Elving: For State Of The Union's Responders, The Warm Glow Often Fades Fast. In: National Public Radio , February 4, 2019.
  12. ↑ Jonathan Martin: Joseph Kennedy III Said to Be Eying Edward Markey's Massachusetts Senate Seat. In: The New York Times , August 17, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Kennedy, Joseph Patrick III
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kennedy, Joe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician (Democratic Party)
DATE OF BIRTH 4th October 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Boston , Massachusetts