Biography

06/04/1856 - 03/19/1935

Arthur Livingston Kennedy (R42) Allegheny (Part) County 1895-1898

Early Life:

Arthur Livingston Kennedy, born June 4, 1856, Allegheny City (now, Pittsburgh), Allegheny County, Pennsylvania; son of James William and Sarah Knox Kennedy; educated, public, private schools; admitted, bar, 1884; delegate, county, State, conventions; alternate delegate, Republican National Conventions, Pennsylvania, Chicago, Illinois, 1888, Saint Louis, Missouri, 1896; member, common council of Allegheny City, 1885-1893; member, president, select council, Allegheny City, 1893-1894; elected, Republican, Pennsylvania State Senate, 1895-1898; mired in three successive financial scandals, 1899-1914; married, Anne Listenberger Kennedy, 1902, children, Larz Anderson, Sally Kennedy, Anne Kennedy, Phyllis Kennedy; moved, Mineola, Long Island, New York, 1910; director, Argonaut Consolidated Mining Company of New York; died, March 19, 1935, collapsed walking the street, Saint Petersburg, Pinellas County, Florida; interment, Union Dale Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.

Pennsylvania Politics:

Delegate, county, State, conventions; alternate delegate, Republican National Conventions, Pennsylvania, Chicago, Illinois, 1888, Saint Louis, Missouri, 1896.

Member, common council of Allegheny City, 1885-1893; member, president, select council, Allegheny City, 1893-1894.

Elected, Republican, Pennsylvania State Senate, 42nd district, Allegheny (Part) County, 1895-1898; committee assignments, Appropriations, Canals and Inland Navigation, Corporations, Education, Finance, Game and Fisheries, Judiciary General, Judiciary Special, Municipal Affairs, Public Roads and Highways, Public Supply of Light, Heat and Water, Railroad and Street Passenger Railways.

Legacy:

Nephew, Philander C. Knox, 44th United States Attorney General, 40th United States Secretary of State, United States Senator from Pennsylvania.

Served, commission that constructed the first Andrew Carnegie Library, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Cited:

Smull’s Legislative Handbook, (1897). Cochran, T.B., (Editor) Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, pages 1075, 1081-1084, Biographical Sketches of Senators, page 1037.

Cox, Harold. "Senate Members K". Wilkes University Election Statistics Project. Wilkes University.

The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York) · Wednesday, March 20, 1935 · Page 17

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