Anthony Kennedy (Maryland)

Anthony Kennedy (December 21, 1810  July 31, 1892) was a United States Senator from Maryland, serving from 1857 to 1863. He was the brother of United States Secretary of the Navy John P. Kennedy.

Anthony Kennedy
United States senator
from Maryland
In office
March 4, 1857  March 3, 1863
Preceded byThomas Pratt
Succeeded byReverdy Johnson
Member of the Maryland House of Delegates from Baltimore City
In office
January 2, 1856  March 4, 1857
Member of the Virginia House of Delegates from Jefferson County
In office
December 6, 1841  December 5, 1842
Serving with John Moler
Preceded byGeorge B. Stephenson
Succeeded byWilliam C. Worthington
In office
December 2, 1839  December 1, 1840
Serving with William C. Worthington
Preceded byGeorge Reynolds
Succeeded byGeorge B. Stephenson
Personal details
Born(1810-12-21)December 21, 1810
Baltimore, Maryland, US
DiedJuly 31, 1892(1892-07-31) (aged 81)
Annapolis, Maryland, US
Political partyWhig, Know Nothing

Kennedy was born in Baltimore, Maryland, to merchant John Kennedy and Nancy Pendleton. His parents sent him to Charles Town, Virginia, (now West Virginia) in 1821, where he attended the Jefferson Academy. He studied law and also engaged in agricultural pursuits. He was a member of the Virginia House of Delegates from 1839 to 1843 and a magistrate on the bench of the Jefferson County Court in Virginia for ten years.

Kennedy was an unsuccessful Whig candidate for election in 1844 to the Twenty-ninth Congress and declined the offer of President Millard Fillmore to be consul to Havana, Cuba, in 1850. He returned to Baltimore in 1851 and was elected as a member of the Maryland House of Delegates in 1856.

Kennedy was elected by the American Party to the United States Senate and served from 1857 to 1863. He served as a delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1867, afterwards retiring from active political life. Kennedy lived on his farm near Ellicott City, Maryland, and died in Annapolis, Maryland, in 1892. He is interred in Greenmount Cemetery in Baltimore, Maryland.

References

  • United States Congress. "Anthony Kennedy (id: K000103)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
  • Anthony Kennedy at Find A Grave
U.S. Senate
Preceded by
Thomas Pratt
U.S. senator (Class 1) from Maryland
March 4, 1857 March 3, 1863
Served alongside: James A. Pearce and Thomas Holliday Hicks
Succeeded by
Reverdy Johnson
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