John P. Kennedy
Novelist, politician (1795-1870) · United States · On the map · Writers · Died at 74
John Pendleton Kennedy was an American novelist, lawyer and Whig politician who served as United States Secretary of the Navy from July 26, 1852, to March 4, 1853, during the administration of President Millard Fillmore, and as a U.S. representative from Maryland's 4th congressional district, during which he...
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John Pendleton Kennedy as a young man.
Washington Irving and his Literary Friends at Sunnyside; third from right in back is John Pendleton Kennedy.
1850 photo of John Pendleton Kennedy at approximately 55 years of age.
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John Pendleton Kennedy was an American novelist, lawyer and Whig politician who served as United States Secretary of the Navy from July 26, 1852, to March 4, 1853, during the administration of President Millard Fillmore, and as a U.S. representative from Maryland's 4th congressional district, during which he encouraged the United States government's study, adoption and implementation of the telegraph. A lawyer who became a lobbyist for and director of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Kennedy also served several terms in the Maryland General Assembly and became its speaker in 1847.
