FamilyFather and son sharing a name. Robert F. Kennedy — US senator and attorney general, brother of President John F. Kennedy — was born in 1925 in Brooklyn. Robert F. Kennedy Jr was born in 1954, became a lawyer and environmental campaigner, later an anti-vaccine activist and an independent presidential candidate. Both records carry Harvard and the University of Virginia School of Law, both men are lawyers, and both are listed with the Democratic Party.