BOSTON — There was a member of the Kennedy household in Congress almost constantly since John F. Kennedy was first elected to the Home of Representatives in 1946. However 2021, it appears, might be a uncommon exception.
Consultant Joseph P. Kennedy III, Democrat of Massachusetts, ran unsuccessfully for the Senate this 12 months, dropping in a major in September and giving up his Home seat within the course of. Additionally on the 2020 poll: Amy Kennedy, the spouse of former Senator Edward M. Kennedy’s son Patrick, who was working for a Home seat in New Jersey’s 2nd District. The Related Press declared her opponent, Consultant Jeff Van Drew, a onetime Democrat who switched events in December and declared allegiance to President Trump, the winner on Friday.
Between John F. Kennedy and Joseph P. Kennedy III, there have been 4 Kennedys in Congress: Robert F. Kennedy, the senator from New York within the late 1960s; Edward M. Kennedy, a Massachusetts senators from the 1960s by means of 2009; Joseph P. Kennedy II, a consultant from Massachusetts within the 1990s; and Patrick J. Kennedy, a consultant from Rhode Island from 1995 to 2011.
And whereas 2021 received’t see one among the Kennedys in Congress, there’ll nonetheless be a Kennedy: The junior senator from Louisiana, a Republican, shares a primary and final title, if not a household lineage, with the previous president — John Kennedy.