A Dictionary of Selected Jacksonian Writers

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KENNEDY, John P 1795-1870 - Author and politician. In 1852, he became Secretary of the Navy and was instrumental in Commander Perry’s success in Japan. He wrote part of Thackeray’s The Virginians. His own works include satire, speeches, reports, and the novels Swallow Barn, about rural life in Virginia (1832); Horse-Shoe Robinson, a Tale of the Tory Ascendency (1835): and Rob of the Bowl, a Legend of St. Inigoes (1838), about Maryland in the days of the second Lord Baltimore.

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