William Kennedy (c. 1775 – 1826) was an American Democratic-Republican Party politician from Sussex County.
He served in the State Assembly 1804–06 and 1808–11 where he was Speaker for the 1810 and 1811 sessions.
In that capacity he was the acting governor of New Jersey from June 19, 1815, when Governor William Sanford Pennington resigned to become a federal judge,[1] to October 26, 1815.
Kennedy is excluded from many official listings, in spite of the fact that he acted as governor for about four months.
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