Larry Kennedy

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Larry R. Kennedy
Larry Kennedy

Incumbent
Assumed office 
1987
Preceded by Doug Moore

Born November 8, 1949
Perth-Andover, New Brunswick
Political party Liberal

Larry Ronald Kennedy B.Sc., M.D. (born November 8, 1949 in Perth-Andover, New Brunswick is a politician in the province of New Brunswick, Canada.

Kennedy studied at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton where he earned a Bachelor of Science before going on to earn his Doctor of Medicine degree from Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Kennedy served as a village councillor for Perth-Andover and was chairman of the District 31 School Board. A practising physician in his hometown area, he was chief and president of the medical staff at Hotel-Dieu Saint-Joseph, and a director of the New Brunswick Medical Society.

He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick in 1987 and re-elected in 1991, 1995, a 1997 by-election, 1999, 2003 and 2006. He is currently Dean of the House.

He represents the electoral district of Victoria-Tobique and also practices medicine as a family physician.