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Senate Years of Service: 1965-1968 Party: Democrat
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KENNEDY, Robert Francis, (brother of John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Edward Moore Kennedy, grandson of John Francis Fitzgerald, uncle of Patrick J. Kennedy, and father of Joseph Patrick Kennedy II),
a Senator from New York; born in Boston, Suffolk County, Mass.,
November 20, 1925; graduated from Milton (Mass.) Academy; served in the United
States Navy Reserve 1944-1946; graduated from Harvard University in 1948 and
from the University of Virginia Law School in 1951; admitted to the
Massachusetts bar in 1951; attorney, Criminal Division, Department of Justice
1951-1952; campaign manager for John F. Kennedys election to the United States
Senate in 1952; assistant counsel, Senate Permanent Subcommittee on
Investigations 1953; assistant counsel, Hoover Commission 1953; chief counsel
to the minority, Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations 1954, and
chief counsel and staff director 1955; chief counsel of Senate Select Committee
on Improper Activities in the Labor or Management Field 1957-1960; campaign
manager for John F. Kennedys election to the Presidency in 1960; Attorney
General of the United States from January 1961, until his resignation September
3, 1964, to be a candidate for the United States Senate; elected as a Democrat
from New York to the United States Senate and served from January 3, 1965,
until his death; died from the effects of an assassins bullet at Los Angeles,
Calif., June 6, 1968, while campaigning for the Democratic presidential
nomination; interment in Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
BibliographyDictionary of American Biography;
The Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law; Palermo,
Joseph A.
In His Own Right: The Political Odyssey of Senator Robert F.
Kennedy. New York: Columbia University Press, 2001; Thomas, Evan.
Robert Kennedy: His Life. New York: Simon & Schuster,
2000; Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr.
Robert Kennedy and His Times. 2 vols. Boston: Houghton
Mifflin, 1978.
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