The following year, he worked as an assistant counsel to the Senate committee chaired by Senator Joseph McCarthy. He began his career as a correspondent for The Boston Post and as a lawyer at the Justice Department, but later resigned to manage his brother John's successful campaign for the U.S. Naval Reserve from 1944 to 1946, Kennedy returned to his studies at Harvard University, and later received his law degree from the University of Virginia. Kennedy was born into a wealthy, political family in Brookline, Massachusetts. Kennedy and Ted Kennedy, he was a prominent member of the Democratic Party and is an icon of modern American liberalism. senator from New York from January 1965 until his assassination in June 1968, when he was running for the Democratic presidential nomination. He served as the 64th United States attorney general from January 1961 to September 1964, and as a U.S. Robert Francis Kennedy (Novem– June 6, 1968), also known by his initials RFK and by the nickname Bobby, was an American politician and lawyer.
