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 * 1. John Kennedy (1738–1803), earliest known Kennedy ancestor, married Bridget Shallow (1744–1774)
 * 2. James Kennedy (c1770-c1835), an Irish farmer, married Maria (c1779-1835)
 * 3. Mary Kennedy, married James Molloy
 * 3. John Kennedy (1804-1864), Irish farmer, inherited his father's farm; married Mary K. Gunnip (1816–1881), had 4 children
 * 3. James Kennedy (1816-1881), Irish farmer, married Catherine Colfer
 * 3. Patrick Kennedy (1823–1858), Irish farmer, immigrant to the United States; married Bridget Murphy
 * 4. Mary L. Kennedy (1851-1926), married Lawrence M. Kane
 * 4. Joanna L. Kennedy (1852-1926), married Humphrey Charles Mahoney
 * 4. John Kennedy (1854-1855)
 * 4. Margaret Kennedy (1855-1929), married John Caulfield
 * 4. Patrick Joseph Kennedy (1858-1929), Massachusetts State Representative (1884-1889) and Senator (1889-1895); married Mary Augusta Hickey
 * 5. Joseph Patrick "Joe" Kennedy, Sr. (1888-1969), married Rose Fitzgerald (1890–1995), the daughter of Boston (Massachusetts) Mayor John F. Fitzgerald. Joseph served as the first chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and as the United States Ambassador to the Court of St. James in the years leading up to World War II.
 * 6. Joseph Patrick Kennedy, Jr. (1915–1944), died during World War II when taking part in Operation Aphrodite as a pilot of a modified B-24 Liberator drone bomber which accidentally exploded and crashed over Blyth Estuary in Suffolk, England. For this act, he was posthumously awarded the Navy Cross. His body was never recovered.
 * 6. John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy (1917–1963), a U.S. Representative (1947–1953), a U.S. Senator (1953–1960) and the 35th U.S. President (1961–1963); married in 1953 to Jacqueline Lee Bouvier (1929–1994) and they had four children. He was assassinated on November 22, 1963 while riding in a presidential motorcade in Dallas, Texas.
 * 7. Arabella Kennedy (1956) — stillborn.
 * 7. Caroline Bouvier Kennedy (b. 1957), lawyer, a co-founder of the Profile in Courage Award, the president of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation and the chairwoman of the American Ballet Theatre; Married Edwin Schlossberg
 * 7. John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Jr. (1960–1999) — died in an plane crash on July 16, 1999
 * 7. Patrick Bouvier Kennedy (1963-1963), died from infant respiratory-distress syndrome two days after his birth
 * 6. Rose Marie Kennedy (1918–2005), she was rendered incapable of intelligible speech or caring for herself by a prefrontal lobotomy at age 23— a new neurosurgical technique of the time and requested by her father — that was intended to cure her increasing mood swings and make her more manageable. The operation instead reduced her to an infantile state. From 1949, she lived in a residential-care facility in Jefferson, Wisconsin, until her death.
 * 6. Kathleen Agnes Kennedy (1920–1948), known as "Kick", in 1944 she married a Protestant, William John Robert Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington (1917–1944) — the son and heir to the Duke of Devonshire — over her mother's strenuous religious objections. After being widowed when her husband was killed in action during World War II, she was killed in an airplane crash in France along with her lover, Peter Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 8th Earl Fitzwilliam (1910–1948).
 * 6. Eunice Mary Kennedy (1921–2009), a co-founder of the Special Olympics in 1968, an organization she began in honor of her sister Rosemary. In 1953, she married Robert Sargent Shriver, Jr. (1915–2011), who was later the U.S. Ambassador to France in the late 1960s-early 1970s and a 1972 vice-presidential candidate; they had five children.
 * 6. Patricia Kennedy (1924–2006), married actor Peter Lawford (1923–1984) in 1954. They had four children and divorced in 1966.
 * 6. Robert Francis "Bobby" Kennedy (1925–1968), U.S. Attorney General (1961–1964) in his brother John's administration and later served as the junior U.S. Senator from New York (1965-his death). In 1950, he married Ethel Skakel (b. 1928) and they had 11 children. He was assassinated in Los Angeles, California during his 1968 campaign for U.S. president.
 * 6. Jean Ann Kennedy (b. 1928), married in 1956 to Stephen Edward Smith (1927–1990) and they had two sons and adopted two daughters. She later served as the U.S. Ambassador to Ireland (1993–1998).
 * 6. Edward Moore "Ted" Kennedy (1932–2009), served as a U.S. Senator from Massachusetts (1962–2009). In 1958, he married Virginia Joan Bennett (b. 1936) and they had three children; they divorced in 1981. In 1992, he married Victoria Anne Reggie (b. 1954) and had two stepchildren from this marriage. On May 20, 2008, it was announced that he had a malignant brain tumor. In the next year, brain cancer severely limited his U.S. Senate appearances. He died on August 25, 2009.
 * 5. Francis Benedict Kennedy (1891-1892)
 * 5. Mary Loretta Kennedy (1892-1971), married George William Connelly (1898-1971)
 * 5. Margaret Louise Kennedy (1898-1974), married Charles Joseph Burke (1899-1967)