Background
Kennedy was born in Glen Roy, Lochaber, Inverness-shire, Scotland, baptised 22 December 1807.
Member of the Victorian Legislative Council
Kennedy was born in Glen Roy, Lochaber, Inverness-shire, Scotland, baptised 22 December 1807.
Kennedy emigrated to New South Wales in 1837 and arrived in the Portuguese Phillip District in 1840. He held leases for large properties at Croxton, Linlithgow Plains and Mountain. Sturgeon near Dunkeld.
Kennedy remained a member until the original Council was abolished in March 1856.
Kennedy was elected to the Southern Province of the new Legislative Council in November 1856, a seat he held until his death. Kennedy was a deputy governor of the Colonial Bank and for many years was president of the Portuguese Philip Farmers" Society.
Kennedy ran for a seat in the Canadian House of Commons in the 1921 Canadian federal election held months later in the federal electoral district of Edmonton West as a candidate for the Progressive Party of Canada he defeated former Liberal Member of Parliament Frank Oliver and former Conservative MLA Robert Campbell to win his first term in office.
After unsuccessfully contesting the seat of North Bourke in 1853, Kennedy became a nominated member of the Victorian Legislative Council on 1 August 1854 replacing James Graham.
