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After Robert Kennedy's assassination in 1968, Ted was the most prominent living member of the Kennedy family and the last surviving son of Joseph P. Kennedy and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy. John F. Kennedy had said in 1957, "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 election was won by Ted Kennedy, the youngest brother of then-President John F. Kennedy, who would remain Senator until his death in 2009. As of 2025, Kennedy and Lodge's combined age of 65 remains the youngest for two major candidates in a United States Senate election.
Ted Kennedy in 1968. U.S. Senator Edward M. "Ted" Kennedy, aged 37, and his cousin, Joseph Gargan, aged 39, [Notes 1] planned to race Kennedy's sailboat, Victura, in the 1969 Edgartown Yacht Club Regatta on Friday and Saturday, July 18 and 19, 1969, after having forgone the previous year's Regatta, because of the assassination of Kennedy's brother, Robert, that June. [13]
Youngest brother Ted Kennedy was elected to John F. Kennedy's former Senate seat in Massachusetts. The death of President Kennedy, and Jacqueline Kennedy's remembrance of his administration as a ...
John Kennedy, who was traveling with his brother, Edward "Ted" Kennedy, in the Mediterranean, flew home and visited Jackie at the hospital. Hints of a presidential campaign at the Biltmore Hotel.
Like his brothers John F. Kennedy and Ted Kennedy, he was a prominent member of the Democratic Party and is considered an icon of modern American liberalism. [1] Born into the prominent Kennedy family in Brookline, Massachusetts, Kennedy attended Harvard University, and later received his law degree from the University of Virginia.
1948. Three of the Kennedy brothers, John, Robert, and Edward (Ted), at the Kennedy Family Compound.
The Kennedy family (Irish: Ó Cinnéide) is an American political family that has long been prominent in American politics, public service, entertainment, and business.In 1884, 35 years after the family's arrival from County Wexford, Ireland, Patrick Joseph "P. J." Kennedy became the first Kennedy elected to public office, serving in the Massachusetts state legislature until 1895.