William Kennedy (Connecticut)

William Kennedy ( born December 19, 1854 in Naugatuck, Connecticut, † June 19, 1918 ) was an American politician. Between 1913 and 1915 he represented the state of Connecticut in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

William Kennedy attended the public schools of his home. After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1879 admitted to the bar, he began practicing in his new profession in Naugatuck. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party. In the years 1896, 1900, 1908 and 1912 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions relevant. From 1899 to 1901 Kennedy sat in the Senate from Connecticut; from 1901 he was a member until his death in 1918 at the Board of Education his hometown of Naugatuck. Since 1893 he was also legal representatives of this city.

In the congressional elections of 1912 Kennedy was in the fifth electoral district of Connecticut in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Republican John Q. Tilson on March 4, 1913. Since he lost to James P. Glynn already at the next election in 1914, Kennedy was able to complete only one term in Congress. At this time the 17th Amendment was adopted, who prescribed the direct election of U.S. senators.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives William Kennedy worked again as a lawyer. He died on 19 June 1918 in his birthplace of Naugatuck.

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