He is a partner at Epstein Becker & Green, a firm headquartered in New York City, and previously represented Connecticut's 12th Senate district in the Connecticut Senate from 2015 to 2019. The leg was In 1982, his mother Joan revealed that Kennedy missed by just ten minutes being aboard On April 8, 2014, Kennedy announced his candidacy for a seat in the On June 26, 2017, Kennedy announced that he would not run for On October 10, 1993, he and Katherine Anne "Kiki" Gershman (b. He is a son of Senator Edward M. "Ted" Kennedy from Massachusetts and nephew of President John F. Kennedy and Senator Robert F. Kennedy. In 1973, when Kennedy was twelve, osteosarcoma (a form of bone cancer) was diagnosed in his right leg. Edward Moore Kennedy Jr. is an American lawyer and politician. 1959)The couple have a daughter, Kiley Rose Kennedy (born August 7, 1994, in Kennedy gave a tribute to his father at his father's public funeral on August 29, 2009.