PERSON: Joe Kennedy III

U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts’s 4th district

Member

Joseph Patrick “Joe” Kennedy III (born October 4, 1980) is an American lawyer and politician, serving as the U.S. Representative for Massachusetts’s 4th congressional district since 2013. He is a Democrat whose district stretches from the western suburbs of Boston to the state’s South Coast. A son of former U.S. Representative Joseph P. Kennedy II, he worked as a Peace Corps volunteer and as an assistant district attorney in the Cape and Islands and Middlesex offices before his election to Congress. A member of the Kennedy family, Kennedy is the grandson of former U.S. Attorney General Robert F. “Bobby” Kennedy and a grandnephew of former U.S. President John F. Kennedy.

Born in Brighton, Massachusetts, Kennedy was raised in the Boston area with his twin brother, Matthew Rauch “Matt” Kennedy. After attending Stanford University he spent two years in the Dominican Republic as a member of the Peace Corps, and earned his law degree at Harvard Law School in 2009. He resigned as a prosecutor in early 2012 to run for the seat held by retiring Congressman Barney Frank. He easily won the Democratic nomination and went on to defeat Republican candidate Sean Bielat. He was sworn into office in January 2013 and sits on the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

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