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Anthony Kennedy (Maryland politician) (1810–1892), U.S. Senator from Maryland from 1857 to 1863; John F. Kennedy (1917–1963), U.S. Senator from Massachusetts from 1953 to 1960; John Kennedy (Louisiana politician) (born 1951), U.S. Senator from Louisiana since 2017; Robert F. Kennedy (1925–1968), U.S. Senator from New York from 1965 to 1968
John Neely Kennedy (born November 21, 1951) is an American politician and attorney 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 ...
Kennedy's margin of victory of 874,608 votes was the largest in Massachusetts political history. [130] [131] Most historians and political scientists who have written about Kennedy refer to his U.S. Senate years as an interlude. [132] According to Robert Dallek, Kennedy called being a senator "the most corrupting job in the world." He ...
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.
The 1960 presidential campaign of John F. Kennedy, then junior United States senator from Massachusetts, was formally launched on January 2, 1960, as Senator Kennedy announced his intention to seek the Democratic Party nomination for the presidency of the United States in the 1960 presidential election.
In the November special election, Kennedy defeated Lodge with 55 percent of the vote. [1] Lodge's father had lost the same seat to then-Representative John F. Kennedy in 1952. [6] Political science professor Murray Levin stated that Kennedy's youth and political inexperience made him an innocent outsider, while his wealth made him incorruptible ...
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.
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.