Anthony Kennedy (Maryland)

Anthony Kennedy ( born December 21, 1810 in Baltimore, Maryland, † July 31, 1892 in Annapolis, Maryland) was an American politician who belonged to the Senate of the United States for the Know-Nothing Party.

Anthony Kennedy was the younger brother of the later U.S. Marine General John P. Kennedy. His parents sent him in 1821 to a private school in Virginia; Later he studied law and worked in agriculture.

In Virginia, he began to get involved in politics. He belonged to the state House of Representatives ( House of Delegates ) 1839-1843. In addition, he spent ten years as a member of the Court of Jefferson County (now part of West Virginia).

1844, competed Kennedy, who still belonged to the Whigs at this time, unsuccessfully for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. The offer of President Millard Fillmore, U.S. Consul to be in Havana, he hit from 1850. He returned a year later returned to Maryland and was also there in 1856 elected to the House of Delegates.

After his conversion to the Know-Nothing Party, which was known as the American Party, Anthony Kennedy was in 1856 elected to the U.S. Senate, where he served from 1857 to 1863. In 1867 he was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention, then of Maryland, before he retired to his farm near Ellicott City in 1892 and died in Annapolis.