Ted+Kennedy

=Ted Kennedy=

==Overview== Edward "Ted' Kennedy was born on February 22, 1932. His elder siblings included John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, and Eunice Kennedy Shriver. Kennedy attended ten different schools by the age of eleven. Between the ages of eight and sixteen he suffered the trauma of his sister Rosemary Kennedy's failed lobotomy and the deaths of his brother Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. in World War II and sister Kathleen Agnes Kennedy in an airplane crash.Kennedy entered Harvard in 1951, but was expelled after having a friend take a Spanish language examination for him. Kennedy enlisted in the United States Army in June 1951. And later in 1953 he re entered Harvard. He graduated from Harvard in 1956 with an A.B. in history and government.

Central Issue
In 1960, John Kennedy ran for President of the United States, and Ted managed his campaign in the Western states. His seven weeks spent in Wisconsin helped his brother win the first contested primary of the season there, and similar time spent in Wyoming was rewarded when a unanimous vote from that state's delegates put his brother over the top at the 1960 Democratic National Convention. In the 1962 U.S. Senate election in Massachusetts, Kennedy first faced a Democratic Party primary challenge from Edward J. McCormack, Jr., the state Attorney General. Kennedy's slogan was "He can do more for Massachusetts", the same one John had used in his first campaign for the seat ten years earlier. Kennedy won the September 1962 primary by a two-to-one margin, and in the November election, Kennedy defeated Republican George Cabot Lodge II gaining 55 percent of the vote. On June 19, 1964, Kennedy was a passenger in a private Aero Commander 680 airplane flying in bad weather from Washington to Massachusetts. It crashed into an apple orchard in the western Massachusetts town of Southampton on the final approach to the Barnes Municipal Airport in Westfield. The pilot and Edward Moss, one of Kennedy's aides, were killed. Kennedy was pulled from the wreckage by fellow Senator Birch E. Bayh II and spent months in a hospital recovering from a severe back injury, a punctured lung, broken ribs and internal bleeding. He suffered chronic back pain for the rest of his life.

Conclusion
Kennedy had a lifetime liberal 90 percent score from the ADA(Americans for Democratic Action) through 2004. Kennedy had a lifetime average liberal score of 88.7 percent, according to a //National Journal// analysis that places him ideologically as the third-most liberal senator of all those in office in 2009. Senator Kennedy received a number of awards and honors over the years. These include an honorary knighthood bestowed by Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, the Order of the Aztec Eagle from Mexico, the US Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Order of the Merit of Chile, and honorary degrees from a number of institutions including Harvard University. Kennedy died of brain cancer on Tuesday, August 25, 2009, at his home in Hyannis Port. At the time of his death, Kennedy was the second most senior member of the Senate, after President pro tempore Robert Byrd of West Virginia, and the third-longest serving senator of all time, behind Byrd and Strom Thurmond of South Carolina.


 * __Obituary-__** []