Meet Jack Schlossberg, John F. Kennedy’s 32-year-old grandson, who just announced he’s running for Congress

Jack Schlossberg, the grandson of John F. Kennedy, speaks on the second night of the Democratic National Convention.
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Jack Kennedy Schlossberg, 32, is the grandson of John F. Kennedy and the son of Caroline Kennedy.
The Yale and Harvard grad is officially entering politics and running for Congress in New York City.
He previously endorsed Kamala Harris for president and mocked his cousin, RFK Jr.
There’s a
new Kennedy
in town.
Jack Kennedy Schlossberg
is the 32-year-old grandson of President John F. Kennedy and the son of Caroline Kennedy.
Despite being known as a member of one of
America’s most iconic political families
, Schlossberg previously asserted he had no plans to enter a race of his own.
However, he announced on November 12 that he would be campaigning for a congressional seat in New York City’s 12th district, an area that encompasses the United Nations, Times Square, the Empire State Building, and Central Park,
The New York Times
reported.
Prior to his political bid, Schlossberg was already making a name for himself with online videos that have garnered him hundreds of thousands of followers.
Last year, he had also taken a more active role in the Democratic Party by endorsing Kamala Harris as the Democratic nominee for president, rather than voicing support for his cousin, independent candidate
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.,
whom he openly mocked on social media during the 2024 presidential campaign season.
Here’s what you need to know about Jack Schlossberg.
John “Jack” Bouvier Kennedy Schlossberg is the grandson of President John F. Kennedy.
Jack Schlossberg introduces Speaker Nancy Pelosi who received the 2019 Profile in Courage Award at The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library And Museum on May 19, 2019.
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He was named for his maternal grandfather, John F. Kennedy, and his maternal great-grandfather, John Vernou Bouvier III.
He is the youngest child of Caroline Kennedy and Edwin Schlossberg, a designer, who have been married since 1986.
Caroline Kennedy and Edwin Schlossberg attend their wedding ceremony on July 19, 1986.
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Kennedy came from an Irish-Catholic background, while Edwin Schlossberg was raised Jewish. Schlossberg has spoken about his connection to Judaism and, in a video voicing support for then-mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani,
said
, “Yeah, I’m Jewish.”
Jack Schlossberg was born in New York City on January 19, 1993.
Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg walks with her son Jack and a school friend in April 1999.
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He later attended The Collegiate School, an all-boys private school in Manhattan, the
New York Post
reported.
He attended Yale University as an undergrad. He went on to graduate from Harvard in 2022.
Caroline Kennedy and Edwin Schlossberg share two other children besides Jack: Tatiana Schlossberg, 35, and Rose Schlossberg, 37.
Caroline Kennedy and her family, daughters: Rose, Tatiana and son James Schlossberg on stage during rehearsals at the 2008 Democratic Convention.
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Schlossberg is the lone grandson of John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy and the eldest surviving male descendant of the former president’s immediate family.
Rose and Tatiana Schlossberg are both married, but Jack told The New York Times that he’s single — and has even been on the celebrity-endorsed dating app Raya, with no success.
“I went on dates for a while and they didn’t really lead me to find love,” he told the publication in November.
He bears a striking resemblance to his maternal uncle, John F. Kennedy Jr., who died in a plane crash in 1999.
John F. John Kennedy Jr. and friends in New York City in 1979.
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John F. Kennedy Jr. died
after an aircraft he was piloting crashed off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, on July 16, 1999.
His wife, Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, and her sister, Lauren Bessette, also died in the accident. 
The couple did not have any children together, so there were no surviving Kennedy heirs through Kennedy Jr.
Prior to entering politics, Schlossberg was on track to follow the family tradition of becoming a lawyer.
Barack Obama shakes hands with Jack Schlossberg after he introduced Obama during a dinner in honor of the Medal of Freedom awardees at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History on November 20, 2013.
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After graduating from Yale University in 2015 with a degree in history, Schlossberg entered Harvard Law School in the fall of 2017 and Harvard Business School in the fall of 2018.
“I’m inspired by my family’s legacy of public service,” Schlossberg said in his first live interview on
“Today”
in 2017. “It’s something that I’m very proud of.”
He graduated from the university in 2022, and in April 2023, Schlossberg announced in an interview with 
People magazine
 that he had passed the New York State Bar exam.
His mother, Caroline, passed the same bar exam in 1989. His uncle, John F. Kennedy Jr., famously failed the New York bar exam twice before ultimately passing on his third try in 1990.
“I went to law school super liberal, and I came out of the program with the same thinking — just realizing that I was still right but that I had not known what I was talking about before,” he told
Vogue
in 2024. 
He shares his family’s interest in politics and civic justice, but previously dismissed the idea that he would get into politics himself.
Prince William, Jack Schlossberg, Tatiana Schlossberg and Caroline Kennedy visit the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum on December 2, 2022.
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“I’m still trying to make my own way, figure things out, so stay tuned. I don’t know what I’m going to do,” he told “Today” in 2017. He again told Savannah Guthrie in 2022 that he had “no plans” to enter politics at the moment. 
Schlossberg took an increasingly public role with the family’s Profile in Courage Awards, which honors world leaders, and the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation.
People
reported that Schlossberg has also worked as a Senate page and intern for former Secretary of State John Kerry. He spoke at the 2020 Democratic National Convention as a representative of his family and has appeared with his mother at many public events.
He also publicly endorsed Kamala Harris as the 2024 Democratic presidential candidate and spoke at the 2024 Democratic Convention.
In 2024, he ridiculed his cousin, then-independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., in a series of social media videos that The New York Times described as “uncharacteristically un-Kennedyesque.”
After RFK Jr. was named secretary of health and human services in 2025, Schlossberg has continued to share posts ridiculing him.
Schlossberg has become the face of a new generation of Kennedys — for better or for worse.
Caroline Kennedy and Jack Schlossberg attend the 2017 Met Gala.
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Schlossberg has over 725,000 followers on Instagram, where he often shares photos and videos related to his paddleboarding hobby as well as political content. He also has over 800,000 followers on TikTok and has received nearly 20 million likes.
He’s also shown that he has a sense of humor. In July 2023, a series of lighthearted videos Schlossberg posted to Instagram about the
downsides of eating at restaurants went viral
.
He also frequently lip syncs to songs and has even shown off his
Australian accent impression
. 
Secretary of State John Kerry once said of him, “A sense of humor is not genetic, but apparently in the Kennedy family, it can be inherited. In President Kennedy’s grandson, Jack Schlossberg, this quality seems to abide.”
“I’m a silly goose — a silly goose who’s trying, just trying, to get the truth out there,” Schlossberg told Vogue. 
However, Schlossberg has also been criticized in recent years for unconventional social media presence, with even some family members criticizing his “trolling,” particularly of his cousin Robert F. Kennedy, online, The New York Post reported.
“I hope he gets the help he needs,” Kennedy’s daughter, Kathleen “Kick” Kennedy, told The Post in February.
Schlossberg announced in November that he’s running for Congress in New York.
Jack Schlossberg, the grandson of John F. Kennedy, speaks on the second night of the Democratic National Convention.
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Schlossberg’s campaign website, using the slogan “Jack for New York,” describes him as “a new generation of leadership for New York” and a “lifelong democrat.”
“I’m not running because I have all the answers to our problems,” he said in a video announcing his candidacy. “I’m running because the people of New York 12 do. I want to listen to your struggles, hear your stories, amplify your voice, go to Washington, and execute on your behalf.”
He is seeking to fill a seat currently held by Democrat Jerrold Nadler, who said in September that he would not be seeking reelection.
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