QUESTIONS:
1. Ted Kennedy has signaled he will run for re-election as Democratic senator from Massachusetts next year. When was Kennedy first elected to the Senate?
2. Kennedy won his first term by defeating George Cabot Lodge in the third clash for a Senate seat between their families. What were the other two Senate races between Kennedys and Lodges?
3. What past Republican opponent of Ted Kennedy went on to become governor of Massachusetts?
4. Since Ted Kennedy has been in the Senate, he has had three family members serve in the House or the Senate. Can you name them?
5. How many present U.S. senators came to the Senate before Ted Kennedy?
ANSWERS:
1. 1962.
2. 1916, when Kennedy’s grandfather, John F. Fitzgerald, was defeated by Lodge’s great-grandfather, Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge; and 1952, when Kennedy’s brother, Rep. John F. Kennedy, unseated Lodge’s father, Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge II.
3. Mitt Romney, Kennedy’s 1994 opponent and currently governor of Massachusetts.
4. Brother Robert F. Kennedy, U.S. senator from New York from 1964-68, nephew Joseph P. Kennedy, U.S. representative from Massachusetts from 1986-98, and son Patrick J. Kennedy, U.S. representative from Rhode Island since 1994.
5. Only one. Fellow Democrat Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia. (Sen. Daniel K. Inouye of Hawaii was elected with Kennedy in 1962.).
