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Edward M. Kennedy was the third longest-serving member of the United States Senate in American history. Voters of Massachusetts elected him to the Senate nine times—a record matched by only one other senator. The scholar Thomas Mann said his time in the Senate was “an amazing and endurable presence. You want to go back to the 19th century to find parallels, but you won‘t find parallels.”
Elected at age 30 to fill the seat formerly held by his brother, President John F. Kennedy, Edward M. Kennedy spent the next 47 years in the Senate, becoming a highly effective legislator. Regularly mentioned as a potential presidential candidate, Kennedy assembled a strong staff and developed a talent for bringing different groups together ...
Edward Moore Kennedy (February 22, 1932 – August 25, 2009) was an American lawyer and politician who served as a United States senator from Massachusetts.A member of the Democratic Party and the prominent Kennedy family, 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.
26 de ago. de 2009 · In 1973, his son Edward M. Kennedy Jr., then 12, developed a bone cancer that cost him a leg. The next year, Mr. Kennedy took himself out of the 1976 presidential race.
Ted (Edward Moore) Kennedy Jr. embodies this fierce perseverance, and his life’s work in cancer advocacy has saved countless lives. Diagnosed at twelve with osteosarcoma, Kennedy lost his leg from the knee down and went through grueling chemotherapy when the treatment was experimental – before dosages were scaled to effectiveness.
On April, 9, 1964, barely four months after the assassination of his brother, President John F. Kennedy, Senator Kennedy took to the Senate floor and gave his maiden speech on the floor of the United States Senate. He chose as his topic the paramount domestic issue of the day, and urged support of the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964, which ...
29 de ago. de 2009 · Sen. Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts — the scion of an American political dynasty who became an iconic liberal legislator — died Aug. 25 after battling brain cancer. Universally known as ...
