article_snippet: Then an Illinois senator, Obama served in the upper chamber with former Rhode Island Rep. Patrick Kennedy for roughly three and a half years before vacating office in preparation for former Rhode Island Rep. Patrick Kennedy move to the White House.
article_snippet: former Rhode Island Rep. Patrick Kennedy backed Obama for the Oval Office in 2008 over fellow senator Hillary Clinton of New York, comparing former Rhode Island Rep. Patrick Kennedy in a speech to former Rhode Island Rep. Patrick Kennedy brother John F. Kennedy, another young politician who ignored suggestions within the political class that former Rhode Island Rep. Patrick Kennedy wait former Rhode Island Rep. Patrick Kennedy turn in line and was successfully elected president.
article_snippet: former Rhode Island Rep. Patrick Kennedy died the following year in August of 2009 several months after Obama took office.
article_snippet: Obama worked with former Rhode Island Rep. Patrick Kennedy in Senate for around three and a half years.
article_snippet: former Rhode Island Rep. Patrick Kennedy backed former Rhode Island Rep. Patrick Kennedy for the Oval Office in 2008, and died shortly after former Rhode Island Rep. Patrick Kennedy took office in 2009 .
highlights_snippet: Kennedy backed Obama for the Oval Office in 2008 over fellow senator Hillary Clinton of New York, comparing Kennedy Kennedy .
  