President Biden will appoint former Massachusetts representative Joe Kennedy III as his special envoy to Northern Ireland, making him the third member of the Democratic dynasty to affix the president’s diplomatic corps.
The 42-year-old grandson of Senator Robert F. Kennedy served 4 terms in Congress but retired from electoral politics in 2021 after losing the Senate primary to incumbent Senator Ed Markey – and endured widespread mockery for being he was drooling for a few years. – a touted national speech rebutting the primary State of the Union address delivered by then-President Donald Trump.
As envoy, Kennedy will give attention to hot economic issues as the Brexit-induced tug of war in Northern Ireland continues to sow relations between the UK and the European Union.
![Joseph Kennedy III is the grandson of the late Robert F. Kennedy.](https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/biden-to-name-rfk-grandson-as-envoy-to-northern-ireland-4.jpg?w=1024)
“It can be very focused on increasing U.S. economic involvement and people-to-people ties,” an administration official said. told the Wall Street Journal.
Kennedy’s cousin, Caroline Kennedy, daughter of President John F. Kennedy, serves as Biden’s ambassador to Australia, while Victoria Kennedy, widow of the late Senator Ted Kennedy, serves as U.S. ambassador to Austria.
The family’s patriarch, Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., served as US Ambassador to the UK under President Franklin D. Roosevelt from 1938 to 1940.
![Kennedy will focus on economic issues in Northern Ireland in the light of Brexit.](https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/biden-to-name-rfk-grandson-as-envoy-to-northern-ireland-1.jpg?w=1024)
The post of Northern Ireland envoy has been vacant since January 2021, when Mick Mulvaney, Trump’s former White House chief of staff, resigned from his administration.