Meet Victoria Reggie Kennedy, wife of Senator Edward ‘Ted’ Kennedy. Read her biography and see photos and a video of her below.
Victoria Reggie Kennedy
Victoria Reggie Kennedy is Ted Kennedy’s wife. She was with her husband when he was airlifted to Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston this morning with symptoms of a stroke and/or seizures. News about his condition is still breaking and early reports are still unclear about his condition and prognosis. Meanwhile, his wife has stayed by his side at the hospital.
As is evidenced by the photos included in this post, Victoria Reggie Kennedy has often been by her husband’s side and is often behind him, supporting him in his career and endeavors. That’s not to say that is all she does. She has had a successful career as an attorney, regularly speaks on issues that are important to her, has founded non-profit organizations having to do with gun-control and children and serves on a number of boards.
UPDATE 5.20.2008: Senator Ted Kennedy has been diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor (malignant glioma in the left parietal lobe). Its been determined that the tumor precipitated the seizures Kennedy experienced over the weekend. His wife, Vickie, has been at his side throughout his hospitalization.
He is being treated in the intensive care unit and there are leaks that he may be in more dire condition than is being reported in the news.
Victoria Reggie Kennedy Biography
Victoria Anne Reggie was born on February 26, 1954 in Crowley, Louisiana. She is the daughter of Crowley, Louisiana City Judge Edmund Reggie. Reggie married Ted Kennedy in a small, private ceremony in Kennedy’s home in McLean, Virginia on July 3, 1992. At the time she was the divorced mother of two children.
Victoria Reggie Kennedy received her undergraduate degree from Newcomb College of Tulane University in New Orleans. She graduated with a B.A. degree, magna cum laude. She was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and other honor societies and served on the student government. She graduated summa cum laude from Tulane Law School in 1979. While in law school she was the editor of the Tulane Law Review and was inducted into the Order of the Coif. She received an Honorary Doctor of Law degree from Suffolk University of Law School in Boston for her service to the community in May 1998.
Mrs. Kennedy is the President and co-founder of Common Sense about Kids and Guns which is a non-profit, non-partisan organization focused on raising awareness of and addressing issues related to gun deaths and injuries to children in the United States. Their primary focus is gun safety and the dangers of children having unsupervised access to guns. She is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, has served on the Board of Stop Handgun Violence in Boston and has served as a member of the Advisory Committee for the Annual Day of National Concern about Young People and Gun Violence. She is a regular lecturer at the American University Washington Semester Program. She speaks on public policy issues related to gun violence prevention and encouraging college students to engage in their communities.
Other issues that she is interested in include issues related to women, children, families, homelessness, economic opportunity, health care, education, domestic violence and involvement in the political process.
Both Senator and Mrs. Kennedy had been previous married. Their blended family includes five children and four grandchildren.
Victoria Reggie Kennedy – Photos
Victoria Reggie Kennedy – Video
May 17th, 2008 at 5:36 pm
hopefully he recovers, he is a great senator
May 17th, 2008 at 5:36 pm
and he’ll always buy a girl a drink … a good trait in a man
May 17th, 2008 at 8:08 pm
Ted Kennedy was well-known to have used cocaine in his Senate offices in the 1980s and often had to be carried from Kelly’s Irish Times, a sotted embarassment to one of our Nation’s finest institutions. Expelled form Harvard for cheating, probably no human being has ever held a position of power for which he was more underqualified. That is, not to mention the fact that he is an unindicted murderer; and a philanderer and adulterer to boot. A great Senator? Study your history, lisab.
May 17th, 2008 at 9:08 pm
Fat Ted has been an enormously influential senator which is certainly the way historians measure greatness, in the same way they would say Attila the Hun was “great.” Great is not necessarily good, don’t you know.
May 17th, 2008 at 10:14 pm
Mary Jo Kopechne is Still Dead and Ted Kennedy is Feeling Better…
Mary Jo Kopechne is known as the woman who was found dead in Senator Ted Kennedy’s car. Read about her and see photos below.
Mary Jo Kopechne
As everyone knows by now, Senator Edward ‘Ted’ Kennedy was rushed to the hospital this morn…
May 18th, 2008 at 12:13 am
teddy is an awesome senator judged by how well he does senator things.
if you ever need help, all you have to do is write/call his office and they WILL help you. i know from personal exerience
and, if you are a cute blonde woman and you happen to meet him, or any of the kennedy’s, they will buy you a drink — my cousin used to work for joe
May 18th, 2008 at 12:15 am
however, even if you don’t like the man, try to imagine
THREE
of your brothers got blown away
and you wouldn’t have problems?
May 18th, 2008 at 7:40 am
“judged by how well he does ’senator things’.”
That about sums it up.
May 21st, 2008 at 8:16 am
SEN Ted Kennedy, I wish for you the very best,
I will pray for your complete recovery
Josephine Azouz
May 22nd, 2008 at 2:25 pm
Hey Kenneth…”no human being has ever held a position of power for which he was more underqualified”?!?
Can you say George W Bush?
May 23rd, 2008 at 4:51 pm
That is quite an old photo you posted of Ted and Vicky- she is really quite hefty now.
And always smiling away like a madwoman.
Joan was exquisite, accomplished and very beautiful.
Ted needed a marriage prior to his reelection in 1994. Rumors that he would dump Vicky surfaced after his reelection of 2006. Enough said.
Ted is a murderer, a drunk, an adulterer.
Karma found him huh?
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March 18th, 2009 at 8:24 am
This is right here, in the present, not the future.
August 26th, 2009 at 2:11 am
Rest In Peace Mr. Kennedy, Rest In Peace.
August 26th, 2009 at 5:15 am
Senator Kennedy’s wife a an absolute pill!!! She’s fake and ‘PLAYING’ the dutiful wife.
I work in a law office as a paralegal and I’m telling you right now… she’s the type that if she doesn’t get her OWN WAY or if you think for yourself or if you don’t BOW DOWN, she’ll make your life a LIVING HELL.
August 26th, 2009 at 7:13 am
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August 26th, 2009 at 11:44 am
I am appalled to read the vitriolic and misinformed comments of your readers. Senator Kennedy made many mistakes in his younger years and part of those actions may have been a result of many tragedies in his life and his difficulty in coping with loss.
However, over the years he has tried to represent his office with dignity and courtesy to his opponents. His record of authoring/co-authoring 3000 bills during his tenure is unprecedented. Although a man born into great wealth, his focus was always on the disadvantaged.
Even if you don’t agree with his politics, Senator Kennedy deserves respect for his many accomplishments. He may not have been a role model as a husband, but his concern and hard work for the majority of Americans far transcends his personal errors in judgement.
For those of you who are not familiar with his work, I suggest you look carefully at his record.
Today, the United States of America has lost a great, fearless and caring Senator, a void that may never be filled again.
August 26th, 2009 at 12:32 pm
I assume she’ll be elected to fill out the rest of his term, if she wants it.
August 26th, 2009 at 12:34 pm
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August 27th, 2009 at 12:00 pm
I just want you to know all America is sad.
You were so lucky to have had the time you had
I loved the Kennedy’s
When you are up to it ,coud send a pic.of Sen Kennedy? Or a prayer card from the funeral mass.
Thank you so much &know Sen Kennedy is in a better place.
Joan Noland
316 Redwood Ct
Harpers Ferry WV 25425
August 29th, 2009 at 12:19 am
I wish and pray for Mr. kennedy.I think that as we look at the children of this family Carolyn,John Jr., Joseph, We all see that Ted was no detriment these individuals. I hope and pray that i can some how raise my children in some resembalance them.Ted’s life is only proof positive that in life we all make mistakes,But it does not mean we can’t or will not be a positive image ans example in for many to come. Thank You Senator Kennedy,And Gog Bless!!!
August 29th, 2009 at 12:21 am
Excuse me for the bad grammar/spelling…
August 29th, 2009 at 10:06 am
Good by Teddy hope you get your reward for killing that young girl . You were not the Saint people are making you out to be. The whole family was a bunch women chaser and drinkers. Staring with big brother Jack.
August 29th, 2009 at 10:21 am
A week before 9 – 11 I was in Washington doing a documentary about white collar crime. I tried to see Kennedy seven times. I got blown off all seven times, and in fact, he was NEVER in his office. Finally, one day I caught him getting off the elevator near another Senator, so I politely approached him,,,,I nearly got tackled by some guys who worked for Kennedy who insisted “I was smbushing the Senator”. I said then, as I say now, WHEN DID HE STOP WORKING FOR THE PUBLIC? SINCE WHEN CAN YOU NOT ASK A QUESTION? Kennedy MAY have been great when he spouted off his mouth for the newsmedia, but in person, he was no lion, more like a lamb…..(I am 5′5″ 110 lbs and perhaps should have dyed my hair blond)