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Quick Facts
- NAME: Joseph P. Kennedy
- OCCUPATION: Business Leader, Diplomat
- BIRTH DATE: September 06, 1888
- DEATH DATE: November 18, 1969
- EDUCATION: Harvard University
- PLACE OF BIRTH: Boston, Massachusetts
- PLACE OF DEATH: Hyannis Port, Massachusetts
- AKA: Joseph P. Kennedy
- Full Name: Joseph Patrick Kennedy
- AKA: Joe Kennedy
- AKA: JPK
Best Known For
Joseph P. Kennedy is best known as the father of three political leaders: President John F. Kennedy, U.S. Representative Ted Kennedy and Robert Kennedy, who served as a U.S. senator and attorney general.
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Joseph Patrick Kennedy was the iron-fisted Kennedy family patriarch who wheeled and dealed his way to wealth and power and pressured his children to succeed at all costs.
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After the loss of his first son, Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., during WWII, Kennedy stepped back from public life and concentrated on grooming his three remaining sons for political office.
Final Years
Joseph P. Kennedy suffered a debilitating stroke in 1961. He died at the Kennedy compound, on Cape Cod along Nantucket Sound in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, on November 18, 1969, at the age of 81.
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