Career
Kennedy was elected unopposed at a by-election on 11 June 1904, following the death of West Cavan"s Member of Parliament Thomas McGovern. He was returned unopposed in 1906, and at the both the January and December elections in 1910., but like most Irish Parliamentary Party MPs, he did not stand at the 1918 general election, leaving the Sinn Féin candidate to be elected unopposed.
