Fall, 1894—Massachusetts. John F . Fitzgerald was elected to a seat in Congress. His grandson, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, would also hold the seat the same district two generations and two world wars later. His daughter, Rose, would subsequently marry Joseph P. Kennedy. Fitgerald's biggest success as a Congressman was to convince outgoing President Cleveland to veto a bill that would have seriously narrowed the possibilities for further immigrants to come to the United States. The literacy-test immigration bill had been steered through the Senate by Massachusetts Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, thus beginning a long history of political animosity with the Kennedy clan.
In subsequent generations, John F. Kennedy would upset a younger Henry Cabot Lodge for the Massachusetts Senate seat in 1952 that had virtually been a family preserve, and the Kennedy— Johnson ticket defeated the Nixon— Lodge ticket. On November 22, 1963, the twice-defeated Henry Cabot Lodge was the United States Ambassador to South Vietnam. His family’s former chauffeur was a man named William Greer, the driver of JFK's limo Nov 22 1963
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