Joseph P. Kennedy

Joseph Patrick Kennedy (September 6, 1888 – November 18, 1969) was a businessman, investor, and politician of the Old United States and American Havana.

A prominent figure in the Democratic Party before the Second American Civil War, Kennedy became one of the most influential White exiles and one of the closest men in Douglas MacArthur's circle. During his exile, he became infamous for his anti-Semitic remarks and sympathies to the regime of Adolf Hitler, as well as his avowed support for isolationism during the Great Revolutionary War. Those factors, along with the defection of his eldest son, Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., to Nazi Germany and later involvement of American Havana in the war against the Axis powers, contrbuted to the decline of Kennedy's political career and his influence on the Americuban political life. His son Robert took his place in MacArthur's political court, eventually becoming the Presidential successor to MacArthur.