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The election was won by Ted Kennedy, the youngest brother of then-President John F. Kennedy, who would remain Senator until his death in 2009. As of 2025, Kennedy and Lodge's combined age of 65 remains the youngest for two major candidates in a United States Senate election.
Sirhan Bishara Sirhan (/ s ɪər ˈ h ɑː n /; [2] Arabic: سرحان بشارة سرحان Sirḥān Bišāra Sirḥān; born March 19, 1944) is a Palestinian-Jordanian man who assassinated Senator Robert F. Kennedy, a younger brother of American president John F. Kennedy and a candidate for the Democratic nomination in the 1968 United States presidential election, on June 5, 1968.
The Kennedy family (Irish: Ó Cinnéide) is an American political family that has long been prominent in American politics, public service, entertainment, and business.In 1884, 35 years after the family's arrival from County Wexford, Ireland, Patrick Joseph "P. J." Kennedy became the first Kennedy elected to public office, serving in the Massachusetts state legislature until 1895.
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.
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. concurred with Robert Kennedy's version of events, and put forth that John Kennedy would have preferred Stuart Symington as his running-mate, alleging that Johnson teamed with House Speaker Sam Rayburn and pressured Kennedy to favor Johnson. [4] Robert Kennedy wanted his brother to choose labor leader Walter Reuther. [5]
The nephew of the late President John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., comes from a long line of acclaimed politicians. The presidential candidate was born in 1954 to Robert F. Kennedy Sr. and ...
Kennedy brothers, John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, and Ted Kennedy, pose outside the iconic Kennedy Compound on Cape Cod in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts. Historical - Getty Images 1953
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.