Kennedy, Edward (
also Ted)
(1932–) a US politician in the
Democratic Party who is the brother of John F. Kennedy. In 1969 he was involved in a car accident at
Chappaquiddick in which his female passenger died. When he tried to become elected President of the US in 1980, many people remembered this accident and were unwilling to support him. He has been a US
senator for Massachusetts since 1962.
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