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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963) served in both houses of Congress before becoming the thirty-fifth president of the United States. His assassination shocked the world.
John F. Kennedy once summed up his time as "very dangerous, untidy." He was the child of two wor...
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Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Jr.
Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Jr. 1917-2007, American historian and public official, b. Columbus, Ohio, as Arthur Bancroft Schlesinger; son of Arthur Meier Schlesinger . He achieved early success as a historian with the publication, the year after his graduation, of his Harvard honors thesis, Orestes...
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William Willard Wirtz
William Willard Wirtz 1912-, U.S. Secretary of Labor (1962-69), b. DeKalb, Ill. A professor of law at Northwestern Univ. (1939-42), he served (1943-45) with the War Labor Board and was (1946) chairman of the National Wage Stabilization Board. Wirtz returned to Northwestern, where he again taught la...
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Robert Francis Kennedy
Robert Francis Kennedy 1925-68, American politician, U.S. Attorney General (1961-64), b. Brookline, Mass., younger brother of President John F. Kennedy and son of Joseph P. Kennedy .
A graduate of Harvard (1948) and the Univ. of Virginia law school (1951), Bobby Kennedy managed his brother ...
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Charles Rann Kennedy
Charles Rann Kennedy 1871-1950, Anglo-American dramatist, b. Derby, England. He became a U.S. citizen in 1917. His plays, concerned with moral problems, include The Servant in the House (1908) and The Terrible Meek (1912).
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Joseph Patrick Kennedy
Joseph Patrick Kennedy 1888-1969, U.S. ambassador to Great Britain (1937-40), b. Boston, grad. Harvard, 1912, father of John F. Kennedy , Robert F. Kennedy , and Edward M. Kennedy (see separate entries). He engaged in banking, shipbuilding, investment banking, and motion-picture distribut...
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Ted Kennedy
Ted Kennedy (Edward Moore Kennedy), 1932-, U.S. senator from Massachusetts (1962-), brother of John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy and youngest son of Joseph P. Kennedy , b. Boston, Mass. He served (1961-62) as an assistant district attorney in Massachusetts before being elected (1962) as a D...
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Nigel Kennedy
Nigel Kennedy 1956-, British violinist. He studied with Dorothy DeLay at the Julliard School, New York City, and debuted as a soloist with the London Philharmonic in 1977. Adept at the classical repertoire, he developed an interest in jazz as a student, introducing it into his concerts in the late ...
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Anthony McLeod Kennedy
Anthony McLeod Kennedy 1936-, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1988-), b. Sacramento, Calif. He graduated from Stanford Univ. (1958) and Harvard Law School (1961). For many years (1965-88) he taught at the McGeorge School of Law at the Univ. of the Pacific. He was named to the U.S. Circ...
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William Kennedy
William Kennedy 1928-, American novelist, b. Albany, N.Y., grad. Siena College, 1949. Brought up in Albany, he worked as a journalist from 1949 to 1970, and began to concentrate on writing fiction in the early 1960s. In evocative prose, with vivid characterizations and acutely observed dialog, Kenn...
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