Patrick J. Kennedy
Patrick Joseph Kennedy (born 14 July 1967 Brighton, Suffolk County, Massachusetts) is an American politician. It was dated January 3, 1995 to January 3, 2011 Congressman Democrats Rhode Iceland.
Biography
Patrick Kennedy was born as the son of Ted Kennedy and Virginia Joan Bennett. Thus he is a nephew of U.S. President John F. Kennedy and a member of the widely ramified Kennedy family. He has an older brother, Edward Moore Kennedy ( b. 1961 ); Born in 1960, his sister Kara Kennedy Allen died in September 2011.
The high school he graduated from Phillips Academy in Andover, from which he graduated in 1986. He studied at Georgetown University and at Providence College in Providence, where he graduated with a degree in Social Science in 1991.
He was in 1988 elected to the House of Representatives from Rhode Iceland. In November 1994 he won in the election for Congress against Republican Kevin Vigilante and got a seat in the House of Representatives. In these midterm elections, which brought the Democrats dramatic losses, he was one of only four candidates of his party, who could win a previously held by Republicans seat. Since then, Kennedy was re-elected regularly, most recently in 2008 with 68.6 percent of the vote to Republican Jonathan Scott. In February 2010, he announced that he would not be standing for re-election in the autumn of the same year in congressional elections.
On 4 May 2006 at 2:45 clock at night Patrick Kennedy drove his car into one of the barricades in the Congress building. As the police led away him without having been subjected to a breathalyzer test, even though he was previously snaking down, the accusation of "special treatment " was born. At a press conference a day later he explained his drug dependence and that he plans to make a new withdrawal at the Mayo Clinic.
Patrick Kennedy is married to the 32 -year-old teacher Amy Petitgout since 15 July 2011. She has moved from a previous marriage, a three year-old daughter into a relationship.
On February 11, 1997, he was awarded the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic Grand Officer of the stage.