Joseph Kennedy

Joseph Kennedy   (businessman)
Born	September 6, 1888
Died	November 18, 1969 (Age 81)
Nationality	US
Alma mater	Boston Latin School, Harvard University
Parents	Patrick Joseph Kennedy
Children	• Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. • John F. Kennedy • Rosemary Kennedy • Kathleen Cavendish • Eunice Kennedy Shriver • Patricia Kennedy Lawford • Robert F. Kennedy • Jean Kennedy Smith • Ted Kennedy
Spouse	Rose Fitzgerald
Member of	Kennedy family, PIAB, The Pilgrims Society
United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom In office March 8, 1938 - October 22, 1940  Chair of the U.S. Maritime Commission In office April 14, 1937 - February 19, 1938  Chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission In office June 30, 1934 - September 23, 1935

Joseph Patrick Kennedy Sr. was a prominent American businessman, investor and politician. He is known for his own political prominence as well as that of his children and was the patriarch of the Irish-American Kennedy family.

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Kennedy made his fortune in the 1920 by what later would be illegal as insider trading. There has been persistent suggestions that he also was behind extensive smuggling of alcohol during the Prohibition era.

Kennedy corresponded regularly with Nancy Astor.

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