Edward Kennedy, known as Ted, was the youngest of nine children, 17 years younger than his brother John F. Kennedy. As a United States senator, he served the people of Massachusetts for 47 years.

Kennedy challenged incumbent President Jimmy Carter in 1980, but did poorly in the primaries and dropped out of the contest. Edward Moore Kennedy was born in Boston on February 22, 1932.

Their creation lasted only a thousand days, but this was long enough to hustle Edward Moore Kennedy into the Senate in 1962, when he was just 30 years old. It was the sort of maneuver that ...

Edward Moore Kennedy, the youngest son of Joseph Patrick Kennedy, is pictured at age 6 with his brother Robert Francis Kennedy, giving sugar to “Babar” the baby elephant at the children’s ...

In 1962, any suggestion that Edward Moore Kennedy might someday be rightly eulogized as a great senator—one of the greatest ever, the lion of the Senate, a wise and skilled legislator ...

“Our thoughts and prayers are with the entire Kennedy family as we mourn the loss and celebrate the extraordinary life of Senator Edward Moore Kennedy.