where was joseph p kennedy born?
Boston
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 Edward Moore Kennedy was born in St. Margaret 's Hospital on February 22 , 1932 , in the Dorchester section of Boston , Massachusetts . He was the youngest of nine children of Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. and Rose Fitzgerald , who were members of prominent Irish American families in Boston , and who constituted one of the wealthiest families in the nation . His elder siblings included Joseph Jr . , John , Eunice , and Robert . John asked to be the newborn 's godfather , a request his parents honored , though they did not agree to his request to name the baby George Washington Kennedy ( the newborn had entered the world on the first president 's 200th birthday ) ; they named him after Joseph Sr. ' s assistant instead . 

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 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 . The 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 ; the incident and its aftermath hindered 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 . 

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 Kennedy was admitted to the Massachusetts Bar in 1959 . In 1960 , John ran for President of the United States and Ted managed his campaign in the Western states . Ted learned to fly and during the Democratic primary campaign he barnstormed around the western states , meeting with delegates and bonding with them by trying his hand at ski jumping and bronc riding . The seven weeks he spent in Wisconsin helped his brother win the first contested primary of the season there and a similar time spent in Wyoming was rewarded when a unanimous vote from that state 's delegates put his brother over the top at the 1960 Democratic National Convention . 

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 Kennedy 's mother Rose died in January 1995 at the age of 104 . Kennedy intensified practice of his Catholicism from then on , often attending Mass several times a week . 

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 In June 2005 , Urlacher filed suit to establish paternity of his son Kennedy . Genetic testing was completed and proved that he is Kennedy 's father . Kennedy 's mother , Tyna Robertson , was already well @-@ known to the media , having made claims of sexual assault against famed dancer Michael Flatley and a doctor from Naperville , Illinois . 
