JAMES P. PINKERTON: The Red-Blue Rumble Comes To Health
The Sept. 3 headline in The New York Times, the perfect place for Democrats to make an announcement: “Snubbing Kennedy, States Announce Plans to Coordinate on Vaccines: Governors in California, Oregon and Washington…
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About 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.S. attorney general and U.S. senator Robert F. Kennedy, an uncle of incumbent U.S. secretary of health and human services Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and the father of U.S. representative Patrick J. Kennedy.
Everything about Ted Kennedy →- Occupation
- politician, lawyer, autobiographer, jurist
- Position held
- district attorney, United States senator, United States senator, United States senator
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- February 22, 1932
- Died
- August 25, 2009
- Website
- http://kennedy.senate.gov/