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Anthony Kennedy (1811-1892), a native of Baltimore, served as a Virginia state legislator (1838-1842) and as a judge in Jefferson County, Va. In 1844 he ran unsuccessfully as a Whig candidate for Congress. He returned to Baltimore in 1850 and was elected to the U.S. senate (1857-1863). Ben. Perley Poore, comp., The Political Register and Congressional Directory . . . (Boston: Houghton, Osgood, 1878), 480; National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, s.v. “Kennedy, Anthony.”
