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John Neely Kennedy (born November 21, 1951) is an American lawyer and politician who has served as the junior United States senator from Louisiana since 2017. A Republican, he served as the Louisiana State Treasurer from 2000 to 2017, as Secretary of the Louisiana Department of Revenue from 1996 to 1999, [1] and as special counsel and then cabinet member to Governor Buddy Roemer from 1988 to 1992.
Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, Senator Ted Kennedy, and President John F. Kennedy in 1963. When Kennedy died in August 2009, he was the second-most senior member of the Senate (after President pro tempore Robert Byrd of West Virginia) and the third longest-serving senator of all time, behind Byrd and Strom Thurmond of South Carolina.
Robert Francis Kennedy (November 20, 1925 – June 6, 1968), also known as RFK, was an American politician and lawyer.He served as the 64th United States attorney general from January 1961 to September 1964, and as a U.S. senator from New York from January 1965 until his assassination in June 1968, when he was running for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Robert F. Kennedy (1925–1968), U.S. Senator from New York from 1965 to 1968 Ted Kennedy (1932–2009), U.S. Senator from Massachusetts from 1962 to 2009 United States state senate members
Senator Kennedy was a long proponent of the 18-year-old's right to vote. He demonstrated his support in his testimony in front of the Subcommittee for Lowering the Voting Age to 18. During his testimony, he stated: "Long ago, according to historians, the age of maturity was fixed at 21, because that was the age at which a young man was thought ...
Timothy Martin Kennedy (born October 20, 1976) [2] is an American politician who is the U.S. representative for New York's 26th congressional district.A member of the Democratic Party, he was elected in the April 2024 special election to finish the remainder of Brian Higgins's term in the 118th United States Congress.
The Kennedy brothers: Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, Senator Ted Kennedy, and President John F. Kennedy in 1963. The Kennedy family is one of the most established political families in the United States, having produced a president, three senators, three ambassadors, and multiple other representatives and politicians.
The vacancy that prompted the special election was created by the death of Democratic Senator Ted Kennedy on August 25, 2009. Kennedy had served as a U.S. senator since 1962, having been elected in a special election to fill the vacancy created when his brother John F. Kennedy was elected president of the United States in 1960.