Ambrose Kennedy

Ambrose Kennedy ( born December 1, 1875 in Blackstone, Worcester County, Massachusetts, † March 10, 1967 in Woonsocket, Rhode Iceland ) was an American politician. Between 1913 and 1923 he represented the third electoral district of the state of Rhode Iceland in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Ambrose Kennedy attended the public schools in Blackstone and the St. Hyacinthe 's College in the Province of Québec. He continued his education at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, where he made his degree in 1897. In the following years, Kennedy was even in school service operates. Between 1898 and 1904 he taught at the Blackstone High School and 1906-1908 he was a Board of Education. In between, he studied until 1906 at the Boston University law. After qualifying as a lawyer, he began in Woonsocket to work in his new profession.

Kennedy was a member of the Republican Party. Between 1909 and 1913 he served on the staff of Governor Aram J. Pothier. Between 1911 and 1913 he was also a member of the House of Representatives of Rhode Iceland; in 1912 he was president of the house. In 1912 he was elected in the newly created third district of Rhode Iceland in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington. Kennedy went to his seat in Congress on March 4, 1913 and could exercise after four re- elections until March 3, 1923.

For the elections of 1922, he opted not to run again. After the end of his time in Congress, Kennedy withdrew from politics. He worked in the following decades back as a lawyer and died in 1967 in Woonsocket. He was buried in the cemetery of his birthplace Blackstone.