David Boyd Kennedy (September 2, 1933 – March 10, 2019) was an American attorney and politician. He served as a Republican member of the

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Life and career

Kennedy was born in

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and graduated from Ann Arbor High School in 1951. He attended

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where he received an AB in Economics and minor in Russian in 1958, the

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where he received L.L.B. in 1963, and

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. He served in the

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from 1954 to 1957 and was stationed at Fort Devens, Massachusetts. In 1967, Kennedy was elected to the

, representing

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, serving until 1971. In 1974, he served as attorney general of Wyoming, succeeding

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He served until 1975, when he was succeeded by Frank Mendicino. Kennedy died in March 2019, at the age of 85.

References

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