Matthew Maxwell Taylor Kennedy

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name = Matthew Maxwell Taylor Kennedy
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birth_date = birth date and age|1965|1|11
birth_place = New York, New York
education = Harvard University
University of Virginia School of Law
Moses Brown School, Providence Rhode Island
occupation = lawyer
spouse = Victoria Anne Stauss
children = Matthew Maxwell Taylor Kennedy, Jr., Caroline Summer Rose Kennedy, and Noah Isabella Rose Kennedy
parents = Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Skakel
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Matthew Maxwell Taylor Kennedy (born January 11 1965), also known as Max Kennedy, was born in New York, New York. He is the ninth child of Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Skakel Kennedy. He graduated with honors from Harvard University and majored in American history. He married Victoria Anne Stauss (b. February 10, 1964) [ [http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/kennedys/sfeature/sf_tree_text.html American Experience | The Kennedys | Kennedy Family Tree | PBS ] ] on July 13 1991 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Both he and his wife graduated from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1992.

They have three children: Matthew Maxwell Taylor Kennedy, Jr., born September 18 1993, Caroline Summer Rose Kennedy, born December 29 1994, and Noah Isabella Rose Kennedy, born July 9 1998 in Hyannis, Massachusetts.

He began his law career in July 1992 by serving for three years as an assistant district attorney in Philadelphia. He co-founded the Urban Ecology Institute at Boston College, where he taught in the Biology and English Departments.

In a campaign covered by Boston media and the New York Times, Kennedy briefly considered running for the house seat vacated by Democrat Joe Moakley in 2001, but he bowed out before declaring his candidacy after a shaky start.His wife Vicki was a Cabot Fellow and taught for several years as a Fellow at Harvard College. Vicki is now teaching at Loyola Marymount.Maxwell Kennedy has been traveling around the country speaking as a surrogate for his hero Senator Barack Obama.

He wrote the book called "Make Gentle the Life of This World : The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy and the Words That Inspired Him".

Max just completed Danger's Hour: The Story of the USS Bunker Hill and the Kamikaze Pilot Who Crippled Her, which will be released by Simon & Schuster on Veteran's Day. The filmmaker Ken Burns said about Danger's Hour:"This is a riveting, thought-provoking, superbly written history that unfolds and surprises like a novel. What we are permitted to participate in is nothing short of hell: a glimpse into the most asymmetrical warfare we Americans have ever faced-the Kamikaze pilot."

You can learn more about the book by going to the website. http://www.dangershour.com/

PT-109

When Max and Edward Kennedy Jr. were small, grandmother Rose would tell them the story of how their uncle, President John F. Kennedy, saved a member of his PT boat crew in World War II by towing him to an island. Max would in return continue the legacy of his uncle by visiting Solomon Islands with Robert Ballard in 2002 to revisit the scene of the story of John F. Kennedy's PT-109. He presented a bust of the late president to Biuku Gasa and Eroni Kumana who were the native coastwatcher scouts who found the missing Kennedy and his crew.

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* [http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/m/joe_moakley/index.html?query=KENNEDY,%20MAX&field=per&match=exact New York Times -Another Kennedy Makes Political Debut]
* [http://bostonphoenix.com/boston/news_features/this_just_in/documents/01650000.htm] Boston Phoenix May 24 - 31, 2001 Max Kennedy’s press problem BY SETH GITELL
* [http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/slipsky/?id=95000579 Wall Street Journal] A Dying Breed Was Joe Moakley the last of the blue-collar Democrats? June 6, 2001 BY SETH GITELL "Max Kennedy, the son of Robert F. Kennedy, also has a chance"
* [http://bostonphoenix.com/boston/news_features/top/features/documents/01561599.htm Team Kennedy] Max Kennedy ... the leading candidate to replace Congressman Joe Moakley — the second-most-powerful Bay Stater in Washington, after Max’s uncle Ted BY SETH GITELL