John Kennedy
U.S. Senator from Louisiana
John Neely Kennedy was born in November 1951 in Centreville, Mississippi. He earned an undergraduate degree from Vanderbilt University. He received a Juris Doctor from the University of Virginia, and a Bachelor of Civil Law from Magdalen College, Oxford. He became a partner in a New Orleans and Baton Rouge law firm and served as a Louisiana State University adjunct law professor.
Kennedy was special counsel to the governor of Louisiana in 1988 and later served as secretary to the governor’s cabinet. After an unsuccessful run for state attorney general in 1991, he returned to private practice. In 1996, he was appointed secretary of the state Department of Revenue.
Kennedy was elected Lousiana State Treasurer in 1999. He made unsuccessful bids to the U.S. Senate in 2004 and 2008. He was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2016 and won reelection in 2022.
Kennedy is married to Becky, and they have one child. He is a Methodist.
In the News…
Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana introduced a bill this month to end public funding for National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS).
Senator Kennedy said from the Senate floor, “We’re spending half a billion dollars a year, 14 and a half billion dollars over time, to give to people at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and NPR and NPS [sic] to participate in opinion journalism, which they’re entitled to do, but they can’t do it on the taxpayer dime. They’re doing it on the taxpayer dime, but they shouldn’t be able to.”
“The audience for public radio and public television is declining. Let me say that again. The audience for public radio and public television, which your tax dollars pay for, is declining,” the senator also said. “There are a lot of reasons for it, but I will tell you one. People used to tune into PBS and NPR and Corporation for Public bias—Public Broadcasting, Freudian slip there—because those stations played it right straight down the middle, but they don’t anymore. They are very, very biased in their reporting. We all know that. I mean, all you have to do is listen to them.”
Contact this Leader…
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The Honorable John Kennedy
Senator from Louisiana
437 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
