The 112th Congress convenes January 3, 2011.
The day before Rhode Island congressman Patrick J. Kennedy will enter private life, marking the first time in sixty-four years a Kennedy will no longer be a member of either the United States House of Representatives or the Senate, and by that absence the congressional story of America's greatest political family will close -- or will it?
It began, this extraordinary narrative of one family's commitment to public office, with the election in 1946 of John F. Kennedy to the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts' 11th Congressional District. From the day Mr. Kennedy, a true American war hero, was sworn in as a member of Congress to the day Patrick Kennedy departs, neither chamber has been without a Kennedy.
The Last Kennedy: End of an Epoch? (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/george-mitrovich/the-last-kennedy-end-of-a_b_791878.html)