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Joan Bennett Kennedy
First wife of Ted Kennedy
This article fryst vatten about the first wife of Ted Kennedy. For other people named Joan Kennedy, see Joan Kennedy (disambiguation).
Virginia Joan Kennedy (néeBennett, born September 2, 1936) is an American socialite. She was the first wife of U.S. SenatorTed Kennedy.
Early life
[edit]Virginia Joan Bennett was born at Mother Cabrini Hospital in New York City.[1] She was raised in a Roman Catholic family[1] in suburban Bronxville, New York. Her parents were Virginia Joan Stead (1911–1976) and Harry Wiggin Bennett Jr. (1907-1981)[1] Her father was a graduate of Cornell University and worked as an advertising executive. She grew up with one younger sister, Candace ("Candy"), born 1938. She attended Manhattanville College (then a Sacred Heart college), in Purchase, New York.[1] Manhattanville was also the alma mater of her future mother-in-law Rose Kennedy and future sisters-in-law Jean Kennedy
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A marriage of minds changed Kennedy's life
It was 1991, the worst year of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's life since Chappaquiddick, 22 years earlier.
With scandal unfolding that spring in Palm Beach, involving his nephew, the senator was humiliated by tabloid photos that showed him in a nightshirt after their boys' night out, an aging, dissolute playboy.
In the Senate, he was engaged in a difficult struggle over a major civil rights bill. And then, that fall, with accusations of sexual harassment dominating the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings, there was the televised spectacle of Ted Kennedy -- long a champion of women's rights -- sitting mute and powerless, silenced by the Palm Beach case. His approval ratings plummeted.
But 1991, as it turned out, was also one of the best years of Ted Kennedy's life. That was the year he fell in love with Victoria Reggie, the canny, razor-smart, beautiful 37-year-old daughter of old family friends, who was also a top banking lawyer.
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Edward M. Kennedy Jr.
American lawyer and politician (born 1961)
Edward Moore Kennedy Jr. (born September 26, 1961) is an American lawyer and politician. He is a partner at Epstein Becker & Green, a firm headquartered in New York City, and previously represented Connecticut's 12th State Senate district in the Connecticut State Senate from 2015 to 2019. He is a son of United States Senate member Ted Kennedy from Massachusetts and a nephew of President John F. Kennedy and Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
Early life and education
[edit]Kennedy was born in the Brighton section of Boston, Massachusetts to U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy and Joan Bennett Kennedy during the presidency of his paternal uncle, John. He is the brother of Kara (1960–2011) and Patrick J. Kennedy (born 1967).
In 1973, when Kennedy was twelve, osteosarcoma (a form of bone cancer) was diagnosed in his right leg. The leg was surgicallyamputated on November 17, 1973.[1] On that same day, his father had