Caroline Kennedy, the daughter of President John F. Kennedy, is seeking the senate seat of New York. The seat will need to be filled when current New York Senator Hillary Clinton becomes Secretary of State under President-elect Barack Obama. New York's Governor, David Paterson, holds the authority to appoint the next new senator of New York until the seat is up for re-election in 2010. Paterson confirmed that kennedy has been in contact with him in reference to the vacant senate seat. Her uncle, Robert F. Kennedy, was a senator of New York from 1965 until his assassination in 1968. Tragic deaths were not uncommon in her family, as you are probably well aware. For example, she had an older sister and younger brother who both died at child birth, her younger brother John Jr. was killed in a plane crash in 1999, and of course there was her father's assasination in 1963. Tragedy almost struck Caroline in 1975 when she was just 18 years old. She was visiting London when a car bomb went off in a car she was about to get into. Luckily for her she was running late, and only an innocent bystander was killed in the blast. The car belonged to Hugh Fraser, a London conservative politician, whom was hosting Caroline during her stay in London.
Other Democrats that have been mentioned for the appointment of New York's senate seat include New York's Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, U.S. House of Representative members Kirstin Gillibrand, Carolyn Maloney, Brian Higgins, and Steve Israel, as well as Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown and Nassau County Executive Tom Suozzi.
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