- Born
- Birth namePatrick Joseph Kennedy
- Patrick Joseph Kennedy II was born on July 14, 1967 in Brighton, Massachusetts, USA. He has been married to Amy Petitgout since July 15, 2011.
- SpouseAmy Petitgout(July 15, 2011 - present)
- Parents
- RelativesAnthony Shriver(Cousin)Caroline Kennedy(Cousin)Rose Kennedy(Grandparent)Joseph P. Kennedy(Grandparent)John Kennedy Jr.(Cousin)Christopher Lawford(Cousin)Maria Shriver(Cousin)Tim Shriver(Cousin)Mark Shriver(Cousin)Robert Shriver(Cousin)Rory Kennedy(Cousin)Kerry Kennedy(Sibling)John Francis Fitzgerald(Great Grandparent)Joseph P. Kennedy Jr.(Aunt or Uncle)Jean Kennedy Smith(Aunt or Uncle)John F. Kennedy(Aunt or Uncle)Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis(Aunt or Uncle)Kathleen 'Kick' Kennedy(Aunt or Uncle)Rosemary Kennedy(Aunt or Uncle)Sargent Shriver(Aunt or Uncle)Eunice Kennedy Shriver(Aunt or Uncle)Robert F. Kennedy(Aunt or Uncle)Patricia Kennedy(Aunt or Uncle)Stephen Smith(Aunt or Uncle)Kara Kennedy(Sibling)
- Grand-Officer of the Order of Prince Henry of Portugal (8 June 1996).
- Has suffered from chronic asthma since childhood.
- Admitted that he suffers from depression. (March 1, 2000)
- Angered the Catholic Church in 1996 by saying, that they should "crawl out of the Stone Age" and let women enter the priesthood.
- Became the youngest member of The House of Representatives at age of 25 in 1994.
- Families like mine, all across the country, know all too well about the damage these weapons can do.
- (Arguing in favor of gun control)"Play with the devil, die with the devil! You will never know what it's like because you didn't have someone in your family killed. It's not the person who's killed. It's the whole family that's affected."
- [on drug use by Senator Lincoln Chafee and his own drug use] "Now, when I hear someone talking about a Rhode Island politician whose father was a Senator and who got to Washington on his family name, used cocaine and wasn't very smart, I know there is only a 50-50 chance it's me".
- (On the consequences of his auto accident in 2006) "I expect at the end of the day to have made sure that I will have done the same thing, in terms of the charges, in terms of bookings, in terms of mug shots, fingerprints, whatever they might have me do, it's what anyone else would have done to them if they were an African American in Anacostia and they were picked up and they were made to stay overnight in a jail, because there was no one else to pick them up."
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