# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joseph-p-kennedy-jr
# Generated: 2026-09-01T05:04:34.855Z

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name: "Joseph P. Kennedy Jr."
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description: "He was supposed to be president. The oldest Kennedy son, groomed for the White House by a father who never stopped planning—until a bomber mission in 1944 erased the blueprint and passed the destiny to his younger brother John."
tagline: "Junior officer in the United States Navy and elder brother of John F. Kennedy"
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birthDate: "1915-07-25"
deathDate: "1944-08-12"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Joseph Patrick Kennedy Jr. was born July 25, 1915, the first of nine children to Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, and from the start his father had mapped a route to the Oval Office. By 1940 he was already a delegate to the Democratic National Convention, positioning himself for a run at the U.S. House of Representatives after the war—first rung on the ladder. But World War II put him in a Navy cockpit as a lieutenant flying land-based patrol bombers. On August 12, 1944, during Operation Aphrodite, he was killed in action and posthumously awarded the Navy Cross. The father's ambitions didn't die with him; they simply shifted one son down, and John F. Kennedy inherited the path Joseph had been meant to walk all the way to the presidency.