Background
Kennedy, John Pendleton was born on October 25, 1795 in Baltimore. Son of John and Nancy (Pendleton) Kennedy.
author United States secretary of the navy
Kennedy, John Pendleton was born on October 25, 1795 in Baltimore. Son of John and Nancy (Pendleton) Kennedy.
Graduate Baltimore College (now U. Maryland.), 1812.
Admitted to Baltimore bar, 1816. Provost U. Maryland. President of the board of trustees Peabody Institute, Baltimore.
Member Maryland. House of Delegates, 1821-1823, 46.
Member United States House of Representatives from Maryland., 25th, 27th-29th congresses, April 25, 1838-1839, 1841-1845. Whig presidential elector, 1840.
Chosen to Maryland. House of Delegates, speaker, 1846.
Secretary navy under President Fillmore, 1852-1853. Organized Commodore Matthew C. Perry’s expedition to Japan, 1852.
Author: Swallow Barn (under pseudonym Mark Littleton), 1832. Horse Shoe Robinson, a Tale of the Tory Ascendency, 1835.
Rob of the Bowl: A Legend of Saint Iniques, 1838.
Memoirs of the Life of William Wirt, 1842.
Member Maryland. House of Delegates, 1821-1823, 46. Member United States House of Representatives from Maryland., 25th, 27th-29th congresses, April 25, 1838-1839, 1841-1845.
Married Mary Tennant, 1824. Married second, Elizabeth Gray, 1829.