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Rose Kennedy: Mother of Camelot
Barbara A. Perry
Senior Fellow
UVA’s Miller Center
Presidential Oral History Program
You could almost narrate a century of United States history through Rose Kennedy’s captivating biography. Her nearly 104 years in the political limelight spanned almost half of the American republic’s own life. Eulogized by Life magazine as “part nun, part enchantress, part ward boss and all mother,” Rose saw her family’s ascendency to the heights of political power and cultural capital, only to be dashed by unfathomable tragedies.
It seems more mythology than fact: her father’s rise to congressman and Boston mayor, just a generation removed from the Irish potato famine; her husband Joe accumulating millions in Hollywood and on Wall Street, then coming to Washington as a New Dealer, followed by his notorious service as ambassador to England. Add to that Rose’s nine lauded children, among them a president, three senators, a congressman, an attorney general, two World War II military heroes, and an ambassador. Rose created an elegant public presence before Jackie was even a twinkle in the nation’s eye. A “republican mother” (grooming her sons for public service), inveterate globe-trotter, consummate fashion plate, media maven, and formidable phil
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Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy (July 22, 1890 – January 22, 1995) married into the Kennedy family and together with her husband, Joe, formed a dynasty whose members helped shape American politics in the twentieth century. The Kennedys became America's equivalent of the "royal family."
Rose Kennedy raised children who sought to serve the greater purpose: President John F. Kennedy and Senator and Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy were her sons. Both of these public servants were assassinated very publicly, causing mourning throughout the world. She bore seven other children, two of whom died tragic deaths at the prime of their lives.
Through her difficulties she maintained her faith, never known to curse God or fate.
Rose Kennedy lived to be 104 years old.
The Kennedy Family
Rose Elizabeth Fitzgerald Kennedy was the matriach of "The Kennedy Clan," which was embedded in the American political culture of the last half of the twentieth century like no other family. Inventors of "Camelot," the Kennedys were perhaps the closest thing to a royal family that America has ever known. They arrived at such a station through ambition, wealth, and fierce family loyalty, coupled with exuberance
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Rose Kennedy
American benefactress, mother capture John F. Kennedy (1890-1995)
For other masses named Rosaceous Kennedy, model Rose President (disambiguation).
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Early life
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