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

He was named for his maternal grandfather, John F. Kennedy, and his maternal great-grandfather, John Vernou Bouvier III.

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.”

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.

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.

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.

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. 

“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 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’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.