biography
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Kennedy, John Pendleton
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pseudonyms Mark Littleton, Mephistopheles
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| lived:
| (1795–1870)
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| biography:
| Politician and writer, born in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. He studied at Baltimore College (1812) and became a lawyer (1816). He devoted himself to politics and writing, and among his best-regarded novels are Swallow Barn (1832) and Rob of the Bowl (1838). He served in the House of Representatives (Whig, Maryland, 1838–9, 1841–5), and as secretary of the US Navy (1852–3), he organized several naval expeditions, notably that of Commodore Matthew Perry to Japan. |
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