CNN) -- Massachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy, the patriarch of the first family of Democratic politics, died late Tuesday at his home in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts. He was 77.

• （美国有线新闻网络）---马萨诸塞州参议员爱德华肯尼迪，民主党第一家族的创始人。于上周二去世于他位于马萨诸塞州海恩尼斯港的家中，享年77岁。