Wow! I just assumed a senator named John Kennedy would be in some way related. This is like finding a wealthy and powerful politician named Roosevelt that had no relation to Teddy or FDR.
In 1958, the two JFKs shared the statewide ballot, and both were re-elected to their respective offices. No one knows how many Massachusetts voters, in that election or the two previous, thought John Fitzgerald Kennedy was doing such a good job in the US Senate that he deserved to be state treasurer as well. John Francis Kennedy admitted that some voters had “been fooled for years,” but he maintained that “not more than 5 per cent” of the electorate confused him with JFK. But it’s not because the state treasurer had done much to distinguish himself from his down-to-the-middle-initial namesake. He refused to buy radio or television time, rarely campaigned in public, and never spent more than $200 on any of his campaigns.
Members of Kennedy’s family were slaveowners before the Civil War, and have been political and economic elites in Louisiana since the 19th century. Kennedy’s great-great-great-grandfather enslaved 120 people in Catahoula and Concordia Parishes.
That’s mighty tough talk from a guy who’s cousin eats bugs and roadkill. Stones and glass houses and all…
No relation, oddly
Wow! I just assumed a senator named John Kennedy would be in some way related. This is like finding a wealthy and powerful politician named Roosevelt that had no relation to Teddy or FDR.
Always double-check your Kennedys:
Just as evil as the other Kennedys tho
They’re all related in the old country 🍀 👁️