William Kennedy (1826) was an American

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politician from Sussex County. He served in the State Assembly 1804–06 and 1808–11 where he was

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for the 1810 and 1811 sessions. He was elected to the

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, the precursor to the New Jersey Senate, from 1813 to 1815. He served as

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from 1814 to 1815. In that capacity he was the acting

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from June 19, 1815, when Governor

William Sanford Pennington William Sanford Pennington (1757 – September 17, 1826) was a United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey, an associate justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey, the sixth governor of New Jersey and a United States district judge of ...

resigned to become a federal judge, to October 26, 1815. He was succeeded as governor by

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. Kennedy is excluded from many official listings, in spite of the fact that he acted as governor for about four months.

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1775 births 1826 deaths Governors of New Jersey Members of the New Jersey Legislative Council New Jersey Democratic-Republicans Democratic-Republican Party state governors of the United States People of colonial New Jersey 19th-century American politicians {{NewJersey-politician-stub

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