David J. Kennedy


David J. Kennedy was a Maine politician and pharmacist. He was a native of Milbridge, Maine. Kennedy, a Republican, represented Milbridge in Washington County from 1959 to 1972, including terms as Speaker of the Maine House of Representatives from 1963 to 1964 and again from 1967 to 1972. He retired from politics in 1972. He was close friends with Portland Democrat Dana Childs and briefly served as a lobbyist for Maine Central Railroad alongside Childs. Kennedy died on July 11, 1995 at Maine Coast Memorial Hospital in Ellsworth of natural causes.