Ted Kennedy was 77. He was the patriarch of the first family of Democratic politics known as the “lion of the Senate” who played major roles in passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act and the 1993 Family and Medical Leave Act.
Not to be mistaken for Ted "Teeder" Kennedy, the Maple Leaf great who left us earlier this month.
