In this Jan. 28, 2008 file photo, Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., left, stands with Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., during a rally for Obama at American University in Washington, where Obama was endorsed by Kennedy. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts, the last surviving brother in a political dynasty and one of the most influential senators in history, died Tuesday night at his home on Cape Cod after a year-long struggle with brain cancer. He was 77. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
HYANNIS PORT, Mass. - Massachusetts Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, the liberal lion of the Senate, has died after battling a brain tumor. He was 77.
FILE - In this May 29, 1996 file photo, U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., speaks outside the Statehouse in Boston before a bronze statue of his brother, the late U.S. President John F. Kennedy, at a ceremony honoring contributors to the statue which was unveiled six years ago. Kennedy, the liberal lion of the Senate, has died after battling a brain tumor. He was 77. Kennedy's family announced his death in a brief statement released early Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2009.(AP Photo/Elise Amendola)
Kennedy's family announced his death in a brief statement released early Wednesday.
For nearly a half-century in the Senate, Kennedy was a dominant voice on health care, civil rights, war and peace, and more. To the American public, though, he was best known as the last surviving brother of a storied political family.
Kennedy was elected to the Senate in 1962, when his brother John was president, and served longer than all but two senators in history.
Over the decades, Kennedy put his imprint on every major piece of social legislation to clear the Congress.
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