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President Kennedy's great-grand parents emigrated from Ireland to the US in the mid-19^th century. His paternal great-grandfather, Patrick Kennedy, arrived in East Boston from Ireland in the 1840s, as a result of the devastating potato famines that decimated the population.

Patrick married Bridget Murphy and had three children before he died.

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Kennedy's maternal great-grandfather was Thomas Fitzgerald, who arrived in Massachusetts in 1854. Fitzgerald first settled in Acton, before moving to Boston, where he owned a grocery store that doubled as a tavern. Kennedy's grandfather, Patrick Joseph Kennedy, was born in 1858, the same year his father died of cholera.

Patrick began working at the docks, as soon as he was old enough to earn money for his family.

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He was able to save money enabling him to open a series of bars. Patrick Kennedy was a popular figure around Boston, and soon entered politics. First, he become a representative in the Massachusetts Lower House, and then in the Stat