Ambrose Jerome Kennedy, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetAmbrose Jerome Kennedy
American politician
Date of Birth: 06-Jan-1893
Place of Birth: Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Date of Death: 29-Aug-1950
Profession: politician
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About Ambrose Jerome Kennedy
- Ambrose Jerome Kennedy (January 6, 1893 – August 29, 1950) was a U.S.
- Representative from Maryland. Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Kennedy attended parochial schools, Calvert Hall College, and Polytechnic Institute.
- He was employed as a clerk for an insurance company from 1909 to 1924, and engaged in the brokerage and insurance business in 1924.
- He was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the Maryland House of Delegates in 1918, and served as member of the Baltimore City Council from 1922 to 1926.
- He served in the Maryland Senate in 1928 and 1929, and served as delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1928 and 1932.
- He was appointed parole commissioner of Maryland in 1929 and served until elected to Congress. Kennedy was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-second Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of John Charles Linthicum and on the same day was elected to the Seventy-third Congress.
- He was reelected to the Seventy-fourth, Seventy-fifth, and Seventy-sixth Congresses and served from November 8, 1932, to January 3, 1941.
- In Congress, he served as chairman of the Committee on Claims (Seventy-fourth, Seventy-fifth, and Seventy-sixth Congresses), but was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1940. He resumed the brokerage and insurance business in Baltimore, as well as serving as a member of the State Unemployment Compensation Board from June 1943 to September 1945.
- In November 1943, he sought an appointment as the president of the Baltimore City Council but lost to C.
- Markland Kelly (a member of the Baltimore Park board) since 1935.
- By 1950, he was a senior vice-president of the insurance firm Poor, Bowen, Barlett and Kennedy.
- He died at Mercy Hospital in Baltimore at age 57, and is interred in the New Cathedral Cemetery.
- A Baltimore city park located at Valley Street and E.
- Chase Street is named in honor of Ambrose Kennedy, who lived nearby at 914 E.
- Biddle Street and attended the nearby St.
- John the Evangelist Catholic Church.
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