Kennedy, Edward Moore (‘Ted’) (1932– )
US Democratic politician. He aided his brothers John and Robert Kennedy in their presidential campaigns of 1960 and 1968, respectively, and entered politics as a senator for Massachusetts in 1962. He failed to gain the Democratic Party presidential nomination in 1980, largely because of questions about his delay in reporting a car crash at Chappaquiddick Island, near Cape Cod, Massachusetts, in 1969, in which his passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne, was drowned. He was reelected for his eighth full term in the Senate in 2006.
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He is a spokesperson for liberal causes including national health care and gun control.
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