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==Government offices held== * [[P. J. Kennedy|Patrick Joseph Kennedy]]: [[Massachusetts House of Representatives|Massachusetts state Representative]], 1884β1889; [[Massachusetts Senate|Massachusetts state Senator]], 1889β1895. **[[Joseph P. Kennedy Sr.|Joseph Patrick Kennedy Sr.]]: Chairman of the [[U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission]], 1934β1935; chairman of the [[United States Maritime Commission]], 1936β1938; [[United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom]], 1938β1940. ***[[John F. Kennedy|John Fitzgerald Kennedy]]: [[United States Representative]] from Massachusetts, 1947β1953; [[United States Senator]] from Massachusetts, 1953β1960; [[President of the United States]], 1961β1963. ****[[Caroline Kennedy]]: [[United States Ambassador to Japan]], 2013β2017; [[United States Ambassador to Australia]], 2022β2024. ***[[Eunice Kennedy Shriver]] ****[[Bobby Shriver]]: [[Santa Monica, California]] City Council member, 2004β2012; Mayor of Santa Monica, 2010. ****[[Mark Kennedy Shriver]]: [[Maryland House of Delegates|Maryland state Delegate]], 1995β2003. ***[[Robert F. Kennedy|Robert Francis Kennedy]]: [[United States Attorney General]], 1961β1964; United States Senator from New York, 1965β1968. ****[[Kathleen Kennedy Townsend]]: [[Lieutenant governor of Maryland]], 1995β2003. ****[[Joseph P. Kennedy II]]: United States Representative from Massachusetts, 1987β1999. *****[[Joe Kennedy III|Joseph P. Kennedy III]]: United States Representative from Massachusetts, 2013β2021; U.S. envoy to Northern Ireland, 2022β2024 ****[[Robert F. Kennedy Jr.|Robert Francis Kennedy Jr.]]: [[United States Secretary of Health and Human Services]], 2025βpresent. ***[[Jean Kennedy Smith]]: [[United States Ambassador to Ireland]], 1993-1998 ****[[William Kennedy Smith]]: Commissioner of the District of Columbia from district 2A04, 2015β2020 ***[[Ted Kennedy|Edward Moore Kennedy]]: United States Senator from Massachusetts, 1962β2009. ****[[Edward M. Kennedy Jr.]]: [[Connecticut Senate|Connecticut state Senator]], 2015β2019. ****[[Patrick J. Kennedy]]: [[Rhode Island House of Representatives|Rhode Island state Representative]], 1989β1993; United States Representative from Rhode Island, 1995β2011. In addition, some Kennedy spouses have served in government: *[[Andrew Cuomo]] (then-husband of [[Kerry Kennedy]]): [[United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development]], 1997β2001. After their divorce, he served as New York state attorney general (2007β2010) and New York governor (2011β2021). *[[Victoria Reggie Kennedy]] (widow of [[Ted Kennedy]]): [[U.S. ambassador to Austria]], 2022β2025 *[[Arnold Schwarzenegger]] (then-husband of [[Maria Shriver]]): [[governor of California]], 2003β2011 *[[Sargent Shriver]] (husband of [[Eunice Kennedy Shriver]]): [[president of the Chicago Board of Education]], 1955β1960; director of the [[Peace Corps]], 1961β1966; director of the [[Office of Economic Opportunity]], 1964β1968; [[U.S. ambassador to France]], 1968β1970 There was a member of the Kennedy family in public office nearly continuously from 1946, when John F. Kennedy was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, until early 2011, when Patrick J. Kennedy left the House. The only exception was the period between John F. Kennedy's resignation from the Senate on December 22, 1960, and his assumption of the office of President on January 20, 1961. In 2013, two years after Patrick Kennedy left the House, Joseph P. Kennedy III was elected U.S. Representative from Massachusetts and served until 2021. Below is a timeline of the Kennedys' tenure in the U.S. Congress. ===Timeline=== {{#tag:timeline| ImageSize = width:1250 height:auto barincrement:12 PlotArea = top:10 bottom:50 right:130 left:20 AlignBars = late Define $today = {{#time:d/m/Y}} DateFormat = dd/mm/yyyy Period = from:01/01/1930 till:$today TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal ScaleMajor = unit:year increment:5 start:1930 ScaleMinor = unit:year increment:1 start:1930 Colors = id:fedcongress value:rgb(0,0,0.6) id:fedgovernment value:rgb(0.6,0,0) id:ambassador value:rgb(0.84,0.62,0.21) BarData = bar:JPKSr bar:JFK bar:EMK bar:RFK bar:JPKII bar:JKS bar:PJK bar:JPKIII bar:CK bar:RFKII PlotData = width:5 align:left fontsize:S shift:(5,-4) anchor:till bar:JPKSr from: 30/06/1934 till: 23/09/1935 color:fedgovernment from: 14/04/1937 till: 19/02/1938 color:fedgovernment from: 08/03/1938 till: 22/10/1940 color:ambassador text:"Joseph P. Kennedy Sr." bar:JFK from: 03/01/1947 till: 22/12/1960 color:fedcongress from: 20/01/1961 till: 22/11/1963 color:fedgovernment text:"John F. Kennedy" bar:EMK from: 07/11/1962 till: 25/08/2009 color:fedcongress text:"Edward M. Kennedy" bar:RFK from: 21/01/1961 till: 03/09/1964 color:fedgovernment from: 03/01/1965 till: 06/06/1968 color:fedcongress text:"Robert F. Kennedy" bar:JPKII from: 03/01/1987 till: 03/01/1999 color:fedcongress text:"Joseph P. Kennedy II" bar:JKS from: 24/06/1993 till: 17/09/1998 color:ambassador text:"Jean Kennedy Smith" bar:PJK from: 03/01/1995 till: 03/01/2011 color:fedcongress text:"Patrick J. Kennedy" bar:JPKIII from: 03/01/2013 till: 03/01/2021 color:fedcongress from: 19/12/2022 till: 13/12/2024 color:ambassador text:"Joe Kennedy III" bar:CK from: 19/11/2013 till: 18/01/2017 color:ambassador from: 25/07/2022 till: 28/11/2024 color:ambassador text:"Caroline Kennedy" bar:RFKII from: 13/02/2025 till: $today color:fedgovernment text:"Robert F. Kennedy Jr." }} {| style="float:right; background:#fff;" |- | {{ubl| {{legend0|#000066|[[United States Congress]]|border=1px solid #AAAAAA}}|{{legend0|#660000|[[Federal government of the United States|United States Government]]|border=1px solid #AAAAAA}}|{{legend0|#d69d36|[[Ambassadors of the United States|United States Ambassador]]|border=1px solid #AAAAAA}} }} |} {{clear}}
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