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Edward Moore "Ted" Kennedy (February 22, 1932 – August 25, 2009) was a United States Senator from Massachusetts and a member of the Democratic Party. Serving almost 47 years, he was the second most senior member of the Senate when he died and is the fourth-longest-serving senator in United States history. For many years the most prominent living member of the Kennedy family, he was the last surviving son of Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr.; the youngest brother of President John F. Kennedy and Senator Robert F. Kennedy, both victims of assassination, and Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., killed in action in World War II; and the father of Congressman Patrick J. Kennedy.
Kennedy entered the Senate in a November 1962 special election to fill the seat once held by his brother John. He was elected to a full six-year term in 1964 and was reelected seven more times before his death. The controversial Chappaquiddick incident on July 18, 1969, resulted in the death of his automobile passenger Mary Jo Kopechne; Kennedy pleaded guilty to a charge of leaving the scene of an accident, and the incident significantly damaged his chances of ever becoming President of the United States. His one attempt, in the 1980 presidential election, resulted in a Democratic primary campaign loss to incumbent President Jimmy Carter.
Barack Hussein Obama II (i/bəˈrɑːk huːˈseɪn oʊˈbɑːmə/; born August 4, 1961) is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office. In January 2005, Obama was sworn in as a U.S. Senator in the state of Illinois. He would hold this office until November 2008, when he resigned following his victory in the 2008 presidential election.
Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, Obama is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he was the president of the Harvard Law Review. He was a community organizer in Chicago before earning his law degree. He worked as a civil rights attorney in Chicago and taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004. He served three terms representing the 13th District in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004.
Following an unsuccessful bid against the Democratic incumbent for a seat in the United States House of Representatives in 2000, Obama ran for the United States Senate in 2004. Several events brought him to national attention during the campaign, including his victory in the March 2004 Illinois Democratic primary for the Senate election and his keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in July 2004. He won election to the U.S. Senate in Illinois in November 2004. His presidential campaign began in February 2007, and after a close campaign in the 2008 Democratic Party presidential primaries against Hillary Rodham Clinton, he won his party's nomination. In the 2008 presidential election, he defeated Republican nominee John McCain, and was inaugurated as president on January 20, 2009. Nine months later, Obama was named the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize laureate. In April 2011, he announced that he would be running for re-election in 2012.
Arlen Specter (born February 12, 1930) is a former United States Senator from Pennsylvania. Specter is a Democrat, but was a Republican from 1965 until switching to the Democratic Party in 2009. First elected in 1980, he represented his state for thirty years in the Senate. Specter is a moderate who staked out a spot in the political center.
Specter was born in Wichita, Kansas to an American mother and a father who immigrated from Russia. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and served with the United States Air Force during the Korean War. Specter later graduated from Yale Law School and opened a law firm with Marvin Katz, who would later become a federal judge. Specter served as assistant counsel for the Warren Commission investigating the assassination of John F. Kennedy and helped devise the "single bullet theory." In 1965, Specter was elected District Attorney of Philadelphia, a position that he would hold until he lost his re-election bid in 1973.
On April 28, 2009, Specter announced that, after 44 years as an elected Republican, he was switching membership to the Democratic Party, On May 18, 2010, Specter was defeated in the Democratic primary by Joe Sestak, who then was defeated by current Senator Pat Toomey in the general election. Toomey replaced Specter on January 3, 2011.
Actors: Kenya Cagle (producer), J.B. Soler (producer), J.B. Soler (actor), J.B. Soler (editor), Jay McCarey (actor), Sarah Natochenny (actress), William Dean (director), William Dean (actor), William Dean (producer), William Dean (editor), Kevin O'Driscoll (writer), Kevin O'Driscoll (producer), Kevin O'Driscoll (producer), Kevin O'Driscoll (actor), Wynne Wharff (actress),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: David Paymer (actor), Bill Lake (actor), James Cromwell (actor), Harald Kloser (composer), Ving Rhames (actor), Kim Roberts (actress), Jacob Vargas (actor), David Gardner (actor), Timm Zemanek (actor), Michael Rhoades (actor), Martin Donovan (actor), David Huband (actor), Vince Nyuli (miscellaneous crew), Dwight McFee (actor), Corinne Conley (actress),
Genres: Drama, History,Actors: Gene Mack (actor), Robert Knepper (actor), Richard Fitzpatrick (actor), Karl Pruner (actor), Lauren Holly (actress), Dug Rotstein (miscellaneous crew), Barbara Gregson (miscellaneous crew), Bill Lake (actor), Walter Cronkite (actor), Shawn Lawrence (actor), Jill Hennessy (actress), Jonathan Whittaker (actor), Daniel Hugh Kelly (actor), David Eisner (actor), Harve Presnell (actor),
Plot: They were more than Washington wives. They were part of an American dream known as Camelot. With strength and cunning they upheld their public image by concealing their private truths. Jackie, Ethel and Joan had little choice. They were Kennedy women. What really unfolded behind the monolith of Kennedy power is revealed for the first time: the true story of the Kennedy reign told through the eyes of the three women who lived it.
Keywords: aristocrat, assassination-of-president, based-on-book, camelot, character-name-in-title, children-playing-football, cover-up, cuban-missile-crisis, death-of-husband, death-of-presidentActors: Richard Hartley (composer), John Glover (actor), Frances Conroy (actress), Alan Landsburg (producer), Geraldine Fitzgerald (actress), Tim Monich (miscellaneous crew), Barton Heyman (actor), E.G. Marshall (actor), Rick Warner (actor), Tom Wright (actor), Kelsey Grammer (actor), John Shea (actor), Margaret Matheson (producer), Ralph Sheldon (editor), Kevin Conroy (actor),
Genres: Biography, Drama, History,Actors: Stephen Elliott (actor), Peter Strauss (actor), James Sikking (actor), John Barry (composer), Robert Englund (actor), Steve Kanaly (actor), Barbara Parkins (actress), Ken Swofford (actor), Simon Oakland (actor), Darleen Carr (actress), Richard T. Heffron (director), Sam Chew Jr. (actor), Patrick Labyorteaux (actor), Ronald J. Fagan (editor), Asher Brauner (actor),
Plot: Joseph Kennedy Jr. was the eldest son of the Kennedy clan. He grew up having to deal with being humiliated and the prejudices of being an Irish Catholic. His father then tells him that the best way to get back at them is make a big impact in politics, in other words to one day be the President of the United States, and he wishes to do so. But first he has to survive World War II, and also he has to do something to make a splash like his brother, Jack who was awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Medal in 1943 following his exploits commanding PT 109.
Keywords: based-on-novel, character-name-in-title, death-of-son, kennedy-family, world-war-two