Ambrose Jerome Kennedy

Ambrose Jerome Kennedy ( born January 6, 1893 in Baltimore, Maryland; † August 29, 1950 ) was an American politician. Between 1932 and 1941 he represented the state of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Ambrose Kennedy attended public schools in his hometown and the Calvert Hall College and the Polytechnic Institute in Baltimore. Between 1909 and 1924 he worked for an insurance company. After that, he was also active in the stock market business. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. In 1918, he ran unsuccessfully for the House of Representatives from Maryland. Between 1922 and 1926, Kennedy was a member of the City Council of Baltimore. In 1928 and 1929 he sat in the Senate of Maryland. 1928 and 1932 he took part in the respective Democratic National Convention as a delegate. Since 1929 he was pardoned Representative of the State of Maryland.

After the death of Mr John Charles Linthicum Kennedy was at the due election for the fourth seat of Maryland as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on 8 November 1932. After three re- elections he could remain until January 3, 1941 at the Congress. During this time most of the New Deal legislation of the Federal Government there were passed under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Kennedy was since 1933 Chairman of the Committee on Claims. In 1940, he was not nominated by his party for re-election.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Kennedy again worked in the insurance industry and in trading. Between 1943 and 1945 he was a member of the unemployed Commission of the State of Maryland. He died on August 29, 1950 in Baltimore, where he was also buried.