- Jack Kennedy Schlossberg, 30, is the grandson of John F. Kennedy and the son of Caroline Kennedy.
- Schlossberg is on track to follow the family tradition of becoming a lawyer.
- He's also shown that he has a sense of humor and is an avid paddleboarder.
There's a new Kennedy in town.
Jack Kennedy Schlossberg is the 30-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 has asserted he has no plans to enter a race of his own. However, he's already making a name for himself.
Here's what you need to know about Jack Schlossberg.
John "Jack" Bouvier Kennedy Schlossberg is the 30-year-old grandson of President John F. Kennedy and the son of Caroline Kennedy.
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 designer Edwin Schlossberg, who have been married since 1986.
Kennedy came from an Irish-Catholic background, while Edwin Schlossberg was raised Jewish.
Jack Schlossberg was born in New York City on January 19, 1993.
In 2011, he graduated from The Collegiate School, a prestigious all-boys private school on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
Caroline Kennedy and Edwin Schlossberg share two other children besides Jack: Tatiana Schlossberg, 33, and Rose Schlossberg, 35.
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 appears to be single.
When appearing on the "Today" show in 2022, Schlossberg shared that his sister Tatiana had recently welcomed a son named Edwin, after their father. Schlossberg also said he'd moved back to his "childhood bedroom" to be closer to his family after graduating from Harvard.
He bears a striking resemblance to his maternal uncle, John F. Kennedy Jr., who died in a plane crash in 1999.
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 perished in the accident.
The couple did not have any children together, so there were no surviving Kennedy heirs through Kennedy Jr.
Schlossberg is on track to follow the family tradition of becoming a lawyer.
After Schlossberg graduated from Yale University in 2015 with a history degree, he 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 he shared that he had passed the New York State bar exam.
His mother, Caroline, passed the same bar exam in 1989. According to People, his uncle John F. Kennedy Jr. famously failed the New York bar exam twice before ultimately passing on his third try in 1990.
He appears to share his family's interest in politics and civic justice.
"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.
While he hasn't committed to a career in politics just yet, Schlossberg has taken an increasingly public role with the family's Profile in Courage Awards, which honors world leaders, and the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation.
According to People, Schlossberg has also worked as a Senate page and intern for former Secretary of State John Kerry.
Schlossberg spoke at the 2020 Democratic National Convention as a representative of his family and has appeared with his mother at many public events. In December 2022, the Harvard graduate was pictured alongside his mother and sister Tatiana meeting with Prince William at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum.
Schlossberg has become the face of a new generation of Kennedys.
Schlossberg boasts over 93,000 followers on Instagram, where he often shares photos and videos related to his paddleboarding hobby.
He's also shown that he has a sense of humor. In July 2023, a series of light-hearted videos Schlossberg posted to Instagram about the downsides of eating at restaurants went viral.
"We have to wait there to eat something that we don't get to choose, really, what it is," Schlossberg said to the camera in one video. "We only get a few choices and you don't know what any of them are gonna taste like or what's good … and we're gonna sit there and wait for some guy to ask us a question. And we're gonna have to talk to some guy about what we wanna eat."
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."
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