Edward Kennedy's Senate Career

Edward Kennedy's Senate Career

Edward Moore Kennedy

American politician and lawyer. Known as the youngest brother of the Kennedy family, he served as a U.S. Senator from Massachusetts from 1962 to 2009. Exercising immense influence in pushing progressive policies like healthcare reform, civil rights, education, and immigration reform, he was famously dubbed the "Lion of the Senate." As the younger brother of President John F. Kennedy and Attorney General/Senator Robert F. Kennedy, he is one of the defining figures of Cold War American politics.

Timeline

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Year Edward Moore Kennedy
1932
Birth of Edward Moore Kennedy (Period: February 22, 1932, Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States)
1947
Cold War (Age: 14 years old, Period: 1947–1991, Location: United States, Soviet Union, United Nations)
1960
Promotion of health care reform (Age: 27 years old, Period: 1960s–2000s, Location: Washington, D.C., United States)
1962
Longest-serving tenure in the Senate (Age: 29 years old, Period: 1962–2009, Location: Washington, D.C., United States)
Election to the Massachusetts Senate special election (Edward Moore Kennedy, Age: 29 years old, Period: 1962, Location: Massachusetts, United States)
1963
Vietnam War (Age: 30 years old, Period: 1960s, especially 1963–1969, Location: Vietnam and the United States)
1964
1964 aircraft accident (Age: 31 years old, Period: 1964, Location: Massachusetts, United States)
1968
1968 Robert F. Kennedy assassination (Age: 36 years old, Period: June 1968, Location: Los Angeles, California, United States)
1969
Chappaquiddick incident (Age: 37 years old, Period: July 18–19, 1969, Location: Chappaquiddick Island, Massachusetts, United States)
1980
Gulf War crisis and post-Cold War military intervention debate (Age: 47 years old, Period: 1980s–early 1990s, Location: Middle East, United States)
1980 Democratic presidential primary (Age: 47 years old, Period: 1980, Location: United States)
1992
Marriage (Edward Moore Kennedy, Joan Bennett Kennedy, Victoria Reggie Kennedy, Age: 59 years old, Period: 1958, 1992, Location: United States)
2009
Death of Edward Moore Kennedy (Age: 77 years old, Period: August 25, 2009)

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Cold War diplomacy Walt Whitman Rostow George Frost Kennan Dean Gooderham Acheson John Foster Dulles Paul Henry Nitze McGeorge Bundy
The Kennedy Family John Fitzgerald Kennedy Robert Francis Kennedy Edward Moore Kennedy Joseph Patrick Kennedy Sr. Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
Harvard University - Intellectual Network Heinz Alfred Kissinger Samuel Phillips Huntington Arthur Meier Schlesinger Jr. John Kenneth Galbraith Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Liberal politics Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Adlai Ewing Stevenson II Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr. Edmund Sixtus Muskie Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Military and Security George Catlett Marshall Jr. Dwight David Eisenhower Curtis Emerson LeMay William Childs Westmoreland Chester William Nimitz
Civil Rights Movement James Arthur Baldwin William Edward Burghardt Du Bois Martin Luther King Jr. Asa Philip Randolph James Weldon Johnson
International cooperation Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Ralph Johnson Bunche George Herbert Walker Bush Adlai Ewing Stevenson II
Cold War Policy Heinz Alfred Kissinger Lyndon Baines Johnson Robert Strange McNamara David Dean Rusk Walt Whitman Rostow
Media and Intellectuals Norman Kingsley Mailer Avram Noam Chomsky Susan Lee Rosenblatt James Arthur Baldwin Betty Naomi Goldstein Friedan
Women's movement Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Betty Naomi Goldstein Friedan Gloria Marie Steinem Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm
Financial circles David Rockefeller Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller Prescott Sheldon Bush William Averell Harriman Robert Abercrombie Lovett

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