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Ted Kennedy
Edward Moore Kennedy was an American lawyer and politician who represented Massachusetts in the United States Senate from 1962 until his death in 2009. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the second-most-senior member of the Senate when he died. He is ranked fifth in U.S. history for length of continuous service as a senator. Kennedy was the younger brother of President John F. Kennedy and U.…
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Born 22 February 1932 · Died 25 August 2009 · Q134549
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2026· 10 entries
“My heart and soul weeps at the loss of my best friend in the Senate, my beloved friend”
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“time again for a new generation of leadership,”
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“sometimes a party must sail against the wind”
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“s friend Paul Markham, both of whom were at the party and came to the scene, had urged Kennedy to report it. A week after the incident, Kennedy pleaded guilty to leaving the scene of an accident and was given a suspended sentence of two months in jail. That night, he gave a national broadcast in which he said,”
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“I have never, ever, nor do I expect ever, to see a face more in grief.”
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“McCormack was able to make a millionaire an underdog”
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Legacy obituary: Edward Kennedy Carter Obituary (2026) - New Orleans, LA - The Boyd Family Funeral Home
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Legacy obituary: Edward Francis Kennedy Obituary (2026) - Spring Hill, FL - Brewer & Sons Funeral Homes - Seven Hills Chapel
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Tribute Archive: Edward Kennedy Obituary | Brewer and Sons Funeral | Spring Hill, FL
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2019· 1 entry
The New York Times rated the claim “Ted Kennedy "got me on the Judiciary Committee."” Contradicts Past Remarks.
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2017· 1 entry
PolitiFact rated the claim “Says Ted Kennedy met “with the KGB in order to beat Ronald Reagan in 1984.”” False.
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2016· 1 entry
Awarded Pardes Humanitarian Prize in Mental Health (2016).
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2015· 1 entry
Awarded Labor Hall of Honor (2015).
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2009· 13 entries
Time: Ted Kennedy, 1932-2009
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Died 2009-08-25.
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Awarded Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (2009).
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Awarded Nansen Refugee Award presented by António Guterres in Washington, D.C. (2009).
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Awarded Profile in Courage Award (2009).
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Won Presidential Medal of Freedom presented by Barack Obama (2009).
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Awarded Dr. Nathan Davis Award for United States Senators (2009).
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Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Gordon Brown announced that Kennedy had been granted an honorary knighthood by Queen Elizabeth II for his work in the Northern Ireland peace process, and for his contribution to UK–US
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Kennedy attended Barack Obama's presidential inauguration, but then suffered a seizure at the luncheon immediately afterwards
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That his relationship with Carter was "unhealthy" and that "Carter was a difficult man to convince – of anything
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“I hope for an America where neither "fundamentalist" nor "humanist" will be a dirty word, but a fair description of the different ways in which people of good will look at life and into their own souls.”
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“Love is not an easy feeling to put into words. Nor is loyalty, or trust, or joy. But he was all of these. He loved life completely and he lived it intensely.”
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The Kennedy Compound in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts became Ted's principal residence
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2008· 6 entries
Kennedy suffered a mild seizure while at home in Hyannis Port; he immediately went to the hospital, was examined and released later that same day
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Awarded Order of the Aztec Eagle (2008).
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Kennedy underwent brain surgery at Duke University Medical Center in an attempt to remove as much of the tumor as possible
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Kennedy suffered a seizure, which was followed by a second seizure as he was being rushed from the Kennedy Compound to Cape Cod Hospital and then by helicopter to Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston
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Despite appeals by both Clintons not to do so
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But in January 2007, Kerry said he would not make a second attempt for the White House
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2007· 1 entry
Career landmark: United States senator (2007–2009).
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2006· 3 entries
Kennedy released a political history entitled America Back on Track
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Kennedy released a children's book from the view of his dog Splash, My Senator and Me: A Dog's-Eye View of Washington, D
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A Cessna Citation 550 in which Kennedy was flying lost electrical power after being struck by lightning and had to be diverted
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2005· 2 entries
Kennedy teamed with Republican Senator John McCain on the Secure America and Orderly Immigration Act
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Career landmark: United States senator (2005–2007).
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2003· 2 entries
Career landmark: United States senator (2003–2005).
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“The tragedy is that these long overdue reforms are finally in place, but the funds are not,”
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2001· 1 entry
Career landmark: United States senator (2001–2003).
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2000· 2 entries
Kennedy supported Vice President Al Gore's legal actions
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As Republican lawyer and entrepreneur Jack E
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1999· 2 entries
Won Four Freedoms Award – Freedom Medal (1999).
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Career landmark: United States senator (1999–2001).
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1997· 2 entries
Career landmark: United States senator (1997–1999).
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Kennedy was the prime mover behind the State Children's Health Insurance Program, which used increased tobacco taxes to fund the largest expansion of taxpayer-funded health insurance coverage for children in the U
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1996· 2 entries
Which set new marks for portability of insurance and confidentiality of records
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Kennedy secured an increase in the minimum wage, which was one of his favorite issues; there would not be another increase for ten years
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1995· 2 entries
When (after the 1994 US House of Representatives elections) the Republican Revolution took control and legislation intending to fulfill the Contract with America was coming from Newt Gingrich's House of Representatives
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Career landmark: United States senator (1995–1997).
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1994· 1 entry
Kennedy's strong recommendation of his former Judiciary Committee staffer Stephen Breyer played a role in Clinton appointing Breyer to the U
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1993· 1 entry
Career landmark: United States senator (1993–1995).
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1992· 1 entry
At Kennedy's home in McLean, Virginia
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1991· 1 entry
Career landmark: United States senator (1991–1993).
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1989· 1 entry
Career landmark: United States senator (1989–1991).
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1988· 3 entries
An analysis published in the Western Political Quarterly of amicus curiae briefs filed by U
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And that the Democratic Party 'may officially turn to him to lead the fight against the Republicans' in 1984 — turning the proposal from one purely about international cooperation to one tinged with personal political as
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Kennedy co-sponsored an amendment to the Fair Housing Act of 1968, which prohibits discrimination in the rental, sale, marketing, and financing of the nation's housing; the amendment strengthened the ability of the Offic
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1987· 2 entries
Kennedy and a young female lobbyist were surprised in the back room of a restaurant in a state of partial undress
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Career landmark: United States senator (1987–1989).
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1986· 2 entries
Awarded Grand Officer of the Order of the Sun of Peru (1986).
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To act as a go-between in arms control negotiations with reformist Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev
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1985· 2 entries
Were in drunken incidents in Washington restaurants, with one involving a waitress claiming the pair sexually assaulted her
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Career landmark: United States senator (1985–1987).
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1983· 1 entry
Career landmark: United States senator (1983–1985).
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1982· 1 entry
That Kennedy "ironically" thwarted Carter's efforts to provide a comprehensive health-care system
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1981· 1 entry
Career landmark: United States senator (1981–1983).
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1980· 3 entries
Election lost: 1980 presidential election.
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Campaign: 1980 presidential election.
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Kennedy ran in the Democratic presidential primaries for the party's presidential nomination, but lost to the incumbent president, Jimmy Carter
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1979· 2 entries
Career landmark: United States senator (1979–1981).
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“s Faneuil Hall. He had already received substantial negative press from a rambling response to the question”
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1978· 3 entries
By which time he had amassed a wide-ranging Senate staff of a hundred
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Though they still staged joint appearances
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Visited the Soviet Union and Brezhnev and dissidents there again
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1977· 2 entries
The Times described Chappaquiddick as Kennedy's Watergate
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Career landmark: United States senator (1977–1979).
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1976· 1 entry
Declaring that his decision was "firm, final, and unconditional
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1975· 1 entry
Career landmark: United States senator (1975–1977).
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1974· 3 entries
“firm, final, and unconditional.”
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To racially integrate Boston's public schools via busing, Kennedy made a surprise appearance at a September 1974 anti-busing rally in City Hall Plaza to express the need for peaceful dialogue and was met with hostility
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Kennedy travelled to the Soviet Union, where he met with leader Leonid Brezhnev and advocated a full nuclear test ban as well as relaxed emigration, met with Soviet dissidents, and secured an exit visa for cellist Mstisl
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1973· 2 entries
Career landmark: United States senator (1973–1975).
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Kennedy's 12-year-old son Edward Jr
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1971· 3 entries
But no bill had the support of House Ways and Means and Senate Finance Committee chairmen Representative Wilbur Mills and Senator Russell Long
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Career landmark: United States senator (1971–1973).
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Suggested he could win the nomination, and Kennedy gave thought to running
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1969· 2 entries
Career landmark: United States senator (1969–1971).
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Resulted in the death of his automobile passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne, Kennedy pleaded guilty to a charge of leaving the scene of an accident and received a two-month suspended sentence
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1968· 1 entry
And then after midnight, Robert was shot in Los Angeles and died the next day
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1964· 1 entry
Kennedy was a passenger in a private Aero Commander 680 airplane that was flying in bad weather from Washington, D
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1963· 2 entries
Ted was presiding over the Senate—a task given to junior members—when an aide rushed in to tell him his brother, President John F
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And said "Emotionally, I just wish my brother could have seen it
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1962· 2 entries
Voters thought McCormack was overbearing—a Kennedy supporter said "McCormack was able to make a millionaire an underdog"—and with the family political machine's finally getting fully behind him, Kennedy won the September 1962 primary by a two-to-one margin.
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To fill the vacant Senate seat previously held by his brother John, who had taken office to become president of the United States
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1961· 1 entry
FBI reports from the time showed Kennedy meeting with Lauchlin Currie, an alleged former Soviet spy, together with locals in each country whom the reports deemed left-wingers and Communist sympathizers
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1960· 1 entry
Ted's brother John announced his candidacy for President of the United States and Ted managed his campaign in the Western states
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1959· 2 entries
Kennedy was admitted to the Massachusetts Bar
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Studied at University of Virginia School of Law, Bachelor of Laws (1959).
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1957· 1 entry
“Just as I went into politics because Joe died, if anything happened to me tomorrow, my brother Bobby would run for my seat in the Senate. And if Bobby died, Teddy would take over for him.”
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1956· 1 entry
Studied at Harvard College, Bachelor of Arts (1950–1956).
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1954· 1 entry
And was also chosen for the Hasty Pudding Club and the Pi Eta fraternity
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1950· 2 entries
Finished 36th in a graduating class of 56
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Studied at Milton Academy (1946–1950).
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1932· 1 entry
Born 1932-02-22.
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