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Joseph Patrick Kennedy III
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Joseph Patrick Kennedy III (born October 4, 1980) is an American law student at Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, who also works for a Massachusetts pro-bono law firm specializing in mortgage-foreclosure mitigation.
As a son of Joseph P. Kennedy II — a businessman and a Democratic former member of the U.S. House of Representatives from the of Massachusetts (1987-1999) — and a grandson of U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy from New York (1965-1968), he is a member of the Kennedy family.
Early life and education
He was born to Joseph Patrick Kennedy II and Sheila Brewster Rauch and has a younger non-identical twin brother, Matthew Rauch Kennedy.
Prior to his father's election to the U.S. House of Representatives, Kennedy's father, in 1979, had founded and led Citizens Energy, a non-profit organization that primarily aids low-income families with discounted and free home-heating services and supplies. Since leaving elective office in 1999, his father returned to Citizens Energy and is its chief executive officer.
His mother is a member of the Brewster and Rauch families, both of which were socially prominent with a tradition in coachbuilding (the Brewsters had owned Brewster & Co., an American coachbuilder.)
Kennedy's parents were divorced in 1991.
At May 2009, he is a third-year law student at Harvard.
Political horizon
He is currently being suggested as a possible candidate for the Massachusetts 8th congressional district. This seat, in addition to having been held by Kennedy's father, was also held (1947-1953) by Kennedy's great uncle John (1947-1953).
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