Harry Kennedy | |
State Senate: | Missouri |
District: | 3rd |
Term Start: | 2003 |
Term End: | 2005 |
Preceded: | John E. Scott |
Succeeded: | Kevin Engler |
State Senate1: | Missouri |
State1: | Missouri |
District1: | 1st |
Term Start1: | 2005 |
Term End1: | 2008 |
Preceded1: | Anita Yeckel |
Succeeded1: | Jim Lembke |
Birth Date: | 21 February 1952 |
Birth Place: | St. Louis, Missouri |
Party: | Democratic |
Harry Kennedy (born February 21, 1952) is an American Democratic politician, who has been a member of the Missouri Senate and Missouri House of Representatives. He is currently a staffer for the St. Louis Board of Aldermen President Lewis Reed and a Democratic Committeeman for St. Louis' 14th Ward.[1]
He graduated from the University of Missouri-St. Louis in 1984 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in speech communication. He is a member of the Catholic parish of St. Mary Margdalene in St. Louis.
Kennedy was a member of the Missouri House of Representatives from 1997 through 2001. He won election to the Missouri Senate from the third district in a special election in 2001. He was re-elected from the first district in 2004, changing districts due to re-districting. Kennedy would have been forced out of the Senate in 2009 due to term limits, but resigned in October 2008 to take his current position with Lewis Reed's office.[2] [3] During his Senate tenure, he was a member of the following Committees: