Ted Kennedy
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Edward Moore Kennedy was an American lawyer and politician who represented Massachusetts in the United States Senate from 1962 until his death in 2009. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the sec
Official portrait, 1990s
Ted Kennedy riding saddle-bronc at the Eastern Montana Fair rodeo in Miles City, Montana on August 27, 1960, while campaigning for his brother John.
First Senate campaign, 1962
Kennedy in 1966
Joseph P. Kennedy Sr.
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Joseph Patrick Kennedy was an American businessman, investor, philanthropist, and politician. Known for his own political prominence as well as that of his children, he was the patriarch of the Kenned
Ted Kennedy
…born at St. Margaret's Hospital in the Dorchester section of Boston, Massachusetts, on February 22, 1932. He was the youngest of the nine children of Joseph Patrick Kennedy and Rose Fitzgerald, members of prominent Irish-American families in Boston. They constituted one of the wealthiest families in the nation after their…
Kennedy in 1938
Kennedy in 1914, aged 25, after becoming president of Columbia Trust Bank
Studio photo of Kennedy as part of trade paper advertisement promoting Film Booking Offices of America's forthcoming attractions, May 1928
Kennedy, along with fifteen others, signed a telegram warning that the release of Sadie Thompson starring Gloria Swanson would jeopardize the ability of the film industry to censor itself. Swanson needed financing for her film production company, and Kennedy began a three-year affair with her when he met her for lunch in New York after the film's release.