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CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. -- There's nothing quite like a historic winner in Massachusetts with the last name of Kennedy.

Oh sure, there was President John F. Kennedy, who won election to the White House in 1960 by defeating Richard Nixon, the vice president of a popular outgoing leader. There was also his younger brother Ted, who was named his successor in the United States Senate and continuously held the seat from his ascension through to his death in 2009 as the fifth-longest senator in American history. Their middle brother Bobby was the Attorney General in John's administration, and of his descendants, two - Joseph P.