The Kennedy family was prominent in Massachusetts politics in the 20th century . Children of businessman and ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. included John F. Kennedy , who was a senator and U.S. president before his assassination in 1963 , Robert F. Kennedy , who was a senator , U.S. attorney general , and presidential candidate before his assassination in 1968 , Ted Kennedy , a senator from 1962 until his death in 2009 , and Eunice Kennedy Shriver , a co-founder of the Special Olympics . In 1966 , Massachusetts became the first state to directly elect an African American to the U.S. senate with Edward Brooke . George H. W. Bush , 41st President of the United States ( 1989 – 1993 ) was born in Milton in 1924
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