WATCH: Rep. Joe Kennedy Gives Democratic Response To Trump’s Address

Rep. Joe Kennedy, D-Mass., will deliver the Democratic response to President Trump’s State of the Union. 

Jacquelyn Martin / Associated Press

Massachusetts Rep. Joe Kennedy III, seen as a rising political star with a famous last name, will deliver the Democratic response to President Trump’s State of the Union.

Kennedy is the grandson of the late Robert Kennedy, the former U.S. attorney general and New York senator who was assassinated in 1968. He is also the great nephew of both the late Massachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy and the late president John F. Kennedy.