Anthony Kennedy (December 21, 1810July 31, 1892) was a

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from

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, serving from 1857 to 1863. He was the brother of

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John P. Kennedy John Pendleton Kennedy (October 25, 1795 – August 18, 1870) was an American novelist, lawyer and Whig politician who served as United States Secretary of the Navy from July 26, 1852, to March 4, 1853, during the administration of President Mi ...

Early life

Kennedy was born in

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, to merchant John Kennedy (1769–1836) and Anne Clayton ( née Pendleton) Kennedy (1776–1854). His parents sent him to

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, (now

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) in 1821, where he attended the Jefferson Academy.

Career

He studied law and also engaged in agricultural pursuits. He was a member of the

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from 1839 to 1843 and a magistrate on the bench of the Jefferson County Court in Virginia for ten years. Kennedy was an unsuccessful Whig candidate for election in 1844 to the Twenty-ninth Congress and declined the offer of President

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to be consul to Havana, Cuba, in 1850. He returned to Baltimore in 1851 and was elected as a member of the

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in 1856. Kennedy was elected by the American Party to the United States Senate and served from 1857 to 1863. He served as a delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1867, afterwards retiring from active political life.

Personal life

On 1832, Kennedy was married to Sarah Stephena Dandridge (1811–1846). They lived on his farm near Ellicott City, Maryland. Together, they were the parents of three children: * Stephen Dandridge Kennedy (1834–1914), who married Frances Howell, a daughter of Lewis Howell and Margaret (née Armistead) Howell, in 1863. After her death, he married his cousin Mary Selden, a daughter of John D. Selden and Ann Rebecca (née Kennedy) Selden, in 1869. * Philip Pendleton Kennedy, who died young. * Agnes Spottiswoode Kennedy (1838–1907), who married Hall Harrison, a son of Rev. Hugh Thompson Harrison, in 1876. Kennedy died in Annapolis, Maryland on July 31, 1892. He is interred in

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Descendants

Through his son Stephen's first marriage, he was the grandfather of Frances Howell Hughes Kennedy, who married William Maurice Manly. From his son Stephen's second marriage, he was a grandfather of four more, including Anthony Kennedy (b. 1873), Mary (née Kennedy) Page (1875–1936), Margaret Hughes (née Kennedy) Cox (1877–1934), Agnes Gray (née Kennedy) Mason (1881–1960).

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