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Mar 22, 1987 · Joe Kennedy first met Gloria Swanson in the Renaissance Room of the elegant new Savoy Plaza Hotel on Nov. 11, 1927. Swanson was Hollywood's reigning sex goddess. Kennedy was a Hollywood mogul...
While still married to Henri, Swanson had a lengthy affair with the married Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., father of future President John F. Kennedy. He became her business partner, and their relationship was an open secret in Hollywood.
- Gloria Swanson
- Gloria May Josephine Swanson, March 27, 1899, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
- 1980
- April 4, 1983 (aged 84), New York City, U.S.
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Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. (1888 – 1969, second from right), the new U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom, leaves the US Embassy to present his credentials to the King at Buckingham Palace, London, 8th March 1938.
Mar 19, 2024 · Joseph P. Kennedy, U.S. businessman, financier, diplomat, and father of U.S. Pres. John F. Kennedy and Senators Robert and Ted Kennedy.
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Joseph P. Kennedy is best known for being the father of three political leaders: President John F. Kennedy, U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy and Robert Kennedy, who served as a U.S. senator and attorney general. Kennedy became a bank president by age 25, also holding positions as a shipyard manager and movie studio owner. By age 30, he was a millionaire. I...
Born on September 6, 1888, to an Irish Catholic family in Boston, Massachusetts, Joseph Patrick Kennedy overcame the class prejudices of the era and enrolled at Harvard University. He graduated from the school in 1912, and, by the age of 25, had become president of a bank. He also found work as a shipyard manager around this time, and became known ...
In the 1932 presidential election, Kennedy supported Franklin D. Roosevelt, who, in turn, named Kennedy chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in 1934. Shortly thereafter, he was appointed as chairman of the U.S. Maritime Commission. In 1937, Kennedy became the first Irish American to serve as the U.S. British ambassador, a positio...
Kennedy suffered a debilitating stroke in 1961. He died at the Kennedy compound, on Cape Cod along Nantucket Sound in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, on November 18, 1969, at the age of 81. Watch "Joseph Kennedy Sr.: The Father of an American Dynasty" on HISTORY Vault
Joseph Patrick Kennedy Sr., circa 1914. Underwood & Underwood Studio/John F. Kennedy Presidential Library. Joseph Patrick Kennedy Sr. (1888-1969) It was with this generation that the Kennedy family name became one associated with political prominence and economic success. Like his father, Joseph was born and raised in Boston. However, P.J.’s ...
Major figures, including Kennedy family patriarch Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., were alarmingly in favor of the authoritarian regimes sweeping Europe. That changed on December 7, 1941: the surprise Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor knocked down all isolationist walls.
