Daughter of Mayor John F. (“Honey Fitz”) and Mary Josephine Hannon Fitzgerald. Married Joseph P. Kennedy (1914). Mother of nine children: Joseph Patrick Kennedy Jr. (1915), John Fitzgerald (1917), Rosemary (1918), Kathleen Agnes (1920), Eunice Mary (1921), Patricia (1924), Robert Francis (1925), Jean Ann (1928) and Edward Moore (1932). Political campaigner for John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy and Edward M. Kennedy. Board of Trustees, Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Foundation.
Papers (1896-1975) consist of correspondence, family papers; research, background materials, drafts, and proofs of Times To Remember (1974); subject and financial files; news clippings; condolences to Mr. and Mrs. Joseph P. Kennedy on the death of Robert Kennedy; and condolence mail occasioned by the death of Mrs. Kennedy. There is an oral history interview with Rose Kennedy, 1968. There also are photographs in the Kennedy Family Photograph Collection.