He studied law with his father and Joseph Ignatius Little and was admitted to the Newfoundland bar around 1893.
Kent served in the Newfoundland cabinet as Minister of Justice and Attorney General.
Kent also represented Newfoundland in a fisheries dispute with the United States in 1909.
He served as head of the Civil Re-establishment Committee at the end of World War I.
He was also vice-president of the Benevolent Irish Society and a charter member of the Knights of Columbus[1]