Joe Kennedy III Bio, Wife, Net Worth, Age, Twin Brother, Father

May 2024 · 4 minute read

Joe Kennedy III, who follows the famous family legacy, is an American attorney and politician who currently serves as the United States Representative of the 4th congressional district of Massachusetts. He has held this position since 2013.

The Kennedys are the most respected political family in America. Over the past 70 years, this family has represented a US President, five members of Congress and Senate, an Attorney General and a Governor, among others, in important positions in the business world. The Kennedys have had at least one senior official in Washington every year since 1947.

Joe Kennedy III (Bio, Age)

Joe was born to Sheila Brewster and JosephPatrick “Joe” Kennedy II on October 4th , 1980 in the Brighton neighborhood of Boston. Joe Kennedy III grew up in Brighton and by the sea in Marshfield, and also spent summers on Cape Cod. As Kennedy, Joe was exposed to politics from an early age. His parents worked on Senator Ted Kennedy, the twins’ great-uncle, for the 1980 US presidential campaign.

In 1986, Joe’s father was appointed to Congress. Political pressures weakened Joseph and Sheila’s marriage and they separated in 1991. One of the effects of the divorce was that the twins were forced to commute between Brighton and Cambridge for the years that followed.

Joe and his brother registered at Stanford University after graduating from Buckingham Browne & Nichols School in Cambridge. He earned a bachelor’s degree in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford. Joe Kennedy III’s notoriety as a teetotaler earned him the college nickname “Milkman” as his lacrosse teammates jokingly ordered him to bottles of milk in clubs and bars. A teetotaler is someone who abstains from alcoholic products. Joe dated future NBA star Jason Collins while he was at Stanford. He was also a member of the Kappa Alpha Order fraternity.

After graduating in 2003, Joe joined the PeaceCorps, a United States government volunteer program with a formal mandate to provide technical assistance to enable social and economic development overseas. Fluent in Spanish, he worked in the Dominican province of Puerto Plata from 2004 to 2006 supporting local guides at the 27 Charcos Reserve in the Damajagua River Park.

As Kennedy, he reformed the group with some outside support, assisting leaders in restoring parts of the park and improving ways to make the facility more attractive to tourists. Joe also served in the Peace Corps as an Advisor on Poverty Reduction for the Office of the President of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste and as a Research Analyst for the United Nations Development Program.

Joe Kennedy III

Joe’s father, Joseph Patrick Kennedy II (born September 24, 1952) is a descendant of the Kennedy family, an American entrepreneur and a Democratic politician. From 1987 to 1999 he was a US member of the House of Representatives for the 8th congressional district of Massachusetts. He founded Citizens Energy Corporation, a non-profit energy company, in 1979 and has led Citizens Energy since 1999.

twin brother

Matthew Rauch Kennedy is the director of Strategic Partnerships at the US Department of Commerce in Washington, DC As Joe’s brother, the brothers are very close and Joe was his best man when he married his sweetheart, Cheryl Hines, in Hyannis Harbor in 2012.

who is his wife

Joe Kennedy III is husband of Lauren Birchfield, a University of California Political Science graduate. She attended law school at Harvard, where she met him. She and Joe graduated from law school in 2009. He proposed in January 2012, and in a ceremony at the Coastal Community in Corona del Mar, California, the couple wed later that year.

Lauren is a co-founder of Neighborhood Villages, an organization that works to provide children with accessible, quality health care and education. She and Joe currently have two children, Eleanor Anne Kennedy who was born in 2015 and James Matthew Kennedy who was born in 2017. The family lives in Newton, Massachusetts.

assets

A heir to the estates of Joe Kennedy and GeorgeSkakel, Joe Kennedy III. Is a business savvy who has made his fortune work for him throughout his political career. The politician has significant trust assets and is valued at between $20 million and $60 million.

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