35th President
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- see also Kennedy family
- Joseph P. Kennedy - father
- US Ambassador to Great Britain under FDR, and early opponent of US entry into World War II
- Was accused of participation in organized crime and anti-semitism.
- P.J. Kennedy - grandfather
- Massachusetts state legislator
- John F. Fitzgerald - grandfather
- Mayor of Boston and U.S. Congressman from Massachusetts
- Joseph Patrick Kennedy, Jr. - brother
- Killed in action in the Second World War.
- Robert Kennedy - brother
- Attorney General under his brother, John F. Kennedy. He also was elected to the United States Senate from New York. He was a candidate for the Democratic Presidential Nomination in the 1968 election until he was shot in Los Angeles, CA on June 5, 1968 after winning the California primary election. He died on June 6.
- Rosemary Kennedy - sister
- Was institutionalized because of a failed 1941 lobotomy, which was in response to mild mental retardation.
- Edward "Ted" Kennedy - brother
- U.S. Senator from Massachusetts from 1962-2009.
- Involved in a fatal car accident in 1969, when he drove his car off of Dike Bridge in Chappaquiddick, killing his passenger Mary Jo Kopechne.
- Unsuccessful Democratic primary challenger to President Jimmy Carter in 1980.
- Jean Kennedy Smith - sister
- U.S. Ambassador to Ireland.
- Founder of VSA arts.
- Board member of the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts.
- Maria Shriver - daughter of Sargent Shriver and Eunice Kennedy, who is a sister of JFK, Robert and Edward Kennedy. Wife of Arnold Schwarzenegger from 1986-2011.
- Christopher Lawford - Son of Peter Lawford, and Patricia Kennedy, who is sister of JFK.
Read more about this topic: List Of U.S. Presidential Relatives, Relatives of John F. Kennedy
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