1932- . US Democratic politician. He aided
his brothers John and Robert Kennedy in the
presidential campaign of 1960, and entered
politics as a senator from Massachusetts
1962. He failed to gain the presidential
nomination 1980, largely because of questions
about his delay in reporting a car crash at
Chappaquiddick Island, near Cape Cod,
Massachusetts, in 1969, in which his
passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne, was drowned.