Max Kennedy
American lawyer
Matthew Maxwell Taylor Kennedy (born January 11, 1965) is an American lawyer and author. He is the ninth child of Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Skakel Kennedy.
Early life and education
Max Kennedy was born in New York City on January 11, 1965, the ninth child of the eleven children of Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Skakel Kennedy. Kennedy was baptized as a Catholic by William Jerome McCormack at St. Patrick's Cathedral in front of a crowd of 200 people. He is named after General Maxwell D. Taylor, then U.S. Ambassador to Vietnam. Kennedy was hospitalized at age 12 after he suffered an injury in an elevator accident at the Potomac home of his uncle and aunt, Sargent and Eunice Kennedy Shriver.
Described as "wild in his youth," Kennedy was expelled from Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. He graduated from Moses Brown School, a preparatory school in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1983; and achieved sobriety in 1985.
Kennedy attended Georgetown University in Fall of 1983.
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