Ted Kennedy - Servant to the People
Edward Moore Kennedy, nicknamed Ted, is the youngest of nine children born on February 22, 1932 to Joseph and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy.
The Kennedy's were a prominent Irish family in Boston, Mass.
Ted Kennedy attended prestigious preparatory schools before enrolling at Harvard University in 1950.
Though he was suspended from Harvard for a brief time for cheating, he eventually graduated from the school in 1956 after a two-year stint in the U.
S.
Army.
Though Kennedy was lauded as a great football player and offered a chance to play professionally, he instead attended the Hague Academy of International Law.
Read more about Kennedy's college football contributions in Sports Illustrated and ESPN the magazine.
Ted Kennedy later earned his law degree from the University of Virginia where he won a prestigious mock courtroom competition and during which time he managed his brother John F.
Kennedy's Senate re-election campaign; Kennedy was accepted to the Massachusetts Bar in 1959.
Read more about Ted Kennedy's political career in The Economist, National Review, Harper's and Time magazine.
Kennedy married Virginia Joan Bennett in 1958 and had children Kara Anne, Edward Jr.
and Patrick before the marriage ended in 1982.
Celebrity magazines like People, Time and Vanity Fair reported the marriage ended due to Kennedy's womanizing and Bennett Kennedy's alcoholism.
Kennedy later married Victoria Reggie, a Washington lawyer.
When in 1960 John Kennedy was elected President of the United States he vacated his Massachusetts Senate seat.
Because Ted was not eligible to fill his brother's seat until 1962, President Kennedy asked Massachusetts Governor Foster Furcolo to name Kennedy-family friend Benjamin A.
Smith II to fill the seat; a move that was legal under the 17th Amendment.
In 1962 Ted Kennedy was elected to the Massachusetts senate in a special election.
In 1964 he was elected to a full six-year term and has been re-elected in every senate election since then.
One year after Ted Kennedy was elected into the Massachusetts Senate, his brother, President John F.
Kennedy was assassinated; five years later his last surviving brother, Robert, was also assassinated during his bid for the Democratic-nomination for the presidency.
In 1969 Kennedy was involved in a mysterious incident known as the Chappaquiddick incident in which Kennedy was involved in a car accident that resulted in the drowning death of Mary Jo Kopechne.
Kennedy left the scene and did not call authorities until after Kopechne's body was discovered the following day.
While Kennedy pleaded guilty to leaving the scene of an accident, his jail sentence of two months was suspended and he was ultimately not charged with any other crime.
Currently and most notably Ted Kennedy is the Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee; he also serves on several committees including the Judiciary, Armed Services and Congressional Joint Economic committees.
He also serves as a trustee of the John F.
Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington D.
C.
Read more about Kennedy's Senate career in political magazines like Harper's, The Economist and National Review magazine.
In 2008, doctors announced Kennedy had a malignant brain tumor and in June he underwent brain surgery at Duke University Medical Center.
With a clean bill of health, he returned to the U.
S.
Capitol in November 2008.
On January 20 of this year while Kennedy was attending an inauguration luncheon at the Inauguration of Barack Obama, he suffered a seizure and was rushed to a hospital.
Ted Kennedy died on August 25, 2009, at his home in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, two weeks after his sister Eunice Kennedy Shriver.
Of Ted Kennedy's death, President Obama said it marked the "passing of an extraordinary leader" and that he and First Lady Michelle Obama were "heartbroken" to learn of Kennedy's death, while Vice President Biden said "today we lost a truly remarkable man," and that Kennedy "changed the circumstances of tens of millions of Americans.
"
The Kennedy's were a prominent Irish family in Boston, Mass.
Ted Kennedy attended prestigious preparatory schools before enrolling at Harvard University in 1950.
Though he was suspended from Harvard for a brief time for cheating, he eventually graduated from the school in 1956 after a two-year stint in the U.
S.
Army.
Though Kennedy was lauded as a great football player and offered a chance to play professionally, he instead attended the Hague Academy of International Law.
Read more about Kennedy's college football contributions in Sports Illustrated and ESPN the magazine.
Ted Kennedy later earned his law degree from the University of Virginia where he won a prestigious mock courtroom competition and during which time he managed his brother John F.
Kennedy's Senate re-election campaign; Kennedy was accepted to the Massachusetts Bar in 1959.
Read more about Ted Kennedy's political career in The Economist, National Review, Harper's and Time magazine.
Kennedy married Virginia Joan Bennett in 1958 and had children Kara Anne, Edward Jr.
and Patrick before the marriage ended in 1982.
Celebrity magazines like People, Time and Vanity Fair reported the marriage ended due to Kennedy's womanizing and Bennett Kennedy's alcoholism.
Kennedy later married Victoria Reggie, a Washington lawyer.
When in 1960 John Kennedy was elected President of the United States he vacated his Massachusetts Senate seat.
Because Ted was not eligible to fill his brother's seat until 1962, President Kennedy asked Massachusetts Governor Foster Furcolo to name Kennedy-family friend Benjamin A.
Smith II to fill the seat; a move that was legal under the 17th Amendment.
In 1962 Ted Kennedy was elected to the Massachusetts senate in a special election.
In 1964 he was elected to a full six-year term and has been re-elected in every senate election since then.
One year after Ted Kennedy was elected into the Massachusetts Senate, his brother, President John F.
Kennedy was assassinated; five years later his last surviving brother, Robert, was also assassinated during his bid for the Democratic-nomination for the presidency.
In 1969 Kennedy was involved in a mysterious incident known as the Chappaquiddick incident in which Kennedy was involved in a car accident that resulted in the drowning death of Mary Jo Kopechne.
Kennedy left the scene and did not call authorities until after Kopechne's body was discovered the following day.
While Kennedy pleaded guilty to leaving the scene of an accident, his jail sentence of two months was suspended and he was ultimately not charged with any other crime.
Currently and most notably Ted Kennedy is the Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee; he also serves on several committees including the Judiciary, Armed Services and Congressional Joint Economic committees.
He also serves as a trustee of the John F.
Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington D.
C.
Read more about Kennedy's Senate career in political magazines like Harper's, The Economist and National Review magazine.
In 2008, doctors announced Kennedy had a malignant brain tumor and in June he underwent brain surgery at Duke University Medical Center.
With a clean bill of health, he returned to the U.
S.
Capitol in November 2008.
On January 20 of this year while Kennedy was attending an inauguration luncheon at the Inauguration of Barack Obama, he suffered a seizure and was rushed to a hospital.
Ted Kennedy died on August 25, 2009, at his home in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, two weeks after his sister Eunice Kennedy Shriver.
Of Ted Kennedy's death, President Obama said it marked the "passing of an extraordinary leader" and that he and First Lady Michelle Obama were "heartbroken" to learn of Kennedy's death, while Vice President Biden said "today we lost a truly remarkable man," and that Kennedy "changed the circumstances of tens of millions of Americans.
"
