 While he lived at Hickory Hill, Robert Kennedy became Attorney General of the United States in 1961; a United States Senator in 1965; and a presidential candidate in 1968.Hickory Hill was placed on the market in 2004 by the Kennedy family at an asking price of $25 million and then subsequently withdrawn in November 2008.After it was sold in December 2009 to a Virginia businessman for $8.25 million, the house underwent a major renovation, completed in the fall of 2013.