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Joseph Kennedy Jr.’s Childhood and Education

Joseph Patrick Kennedy Jr. was born on July 25, 1915, at his parents’ rented summer house in Hull, Massachusetts, near Boston. His father and namesake was the son of a Boston saloon owner and the grandson of Irish immigrants.

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Joseph Kennedy Sr. made a large fortune in the stock market and through investments in a variety of industries, including real estate and film production. In 1934, President Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945) appointed Kennedy the first chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, and from 1938 to 1940 he served as the American ambassador to Great Britain.

His wife, Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, a devout Catholic, was the daughter of Massachusetts politician John Francis “Honey Fitz” Fitzgerald (1863-1950), who served as mayor of Boston and in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Joseph and Rose Kennedy raised their family in Brookline, Massachusetts, before moving to the suburbs of New York City in the mid-1920s.