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Ted Kennedy has served as a U.S. senator from Massachusetts since 1962. The brother of President JOHN F. KENNEDY and Senator ROBERT F. KENNEDY, who were both assassinated, he has championed many liberal social programs, including NATIONAL HEALTH CARE, and has been a major figure in the DEMOCRATIC PARTY. His presidential aspirations were damaged because of personal scandal.

Edward Moore "Ted" Kennedy, the youngest of nine children of Joseph P. Kennedy and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, was born February 22, 1932, in Brookline, Massachusetts. He started at Harvard University in 1950, then left in 1951 to serve in the U.S. Army. He returned to...