Biographical details
Name: Senator Edward Moore Kennedy, Democrat from Massachusetts.
Age: 77; born Feb 22, 1932, in Boston; died Aug 25, 2009, in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts.
Education: Bachelor's degree, Harvard University, 1956; law degree, University of Virginia Law School, 1959.
Career: First elected to the Senate in a 1962 special election to fill the vacancy left when his brother, John F. Kennedy, became president. Senator Kennedy was re-elected to six-year terms in 1964, 1970, 1976, 1982, 1988, 1994, 2000 and 2006.
Family: Married to second wife, Victoria Reggie Kennedy, in 1992; children, Curran, Caroline, Kara, Edward Jr, and Patrick. Divorced from his first wife, Joan, in 1982.
Quote: "For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die." - Addressing the 1980 Democratic National Convention.
AP
(China Daily 08/27/2009 page11)
