Caroline Kennedy in the Senate? An historic perspective

Doug Wead, presidential historian writes on his blog about this possibility:

I am getting a ton of calls from journalists wanting some historical context for Caroline Kennedy’s likely appointment to the U. S. Senate. Even one of the presidential historian - talking heads has checked in, asking for example, if there have been other children of presidents who have served in the Senate. “Just Adams and Taft, right?” one famous historian wanted to know. Gotta make sure before going onto TV to tell the world.
Yep, just Adams and Taft. Caroline Kennedy would make three. Although there have been eight who served in the House of Representatives, four in the cabinet, five ambassadors and two governors, both Bushes.
Of course, Kennedy is not in yet. Presumably she would be appointed to finish the term of Hillary Clinton, whom President Elect Obama is going to make his Secretary of State. A lot of history there.Clinton will be the first former first lady to serve in the cabinet, although Eleanor Roosevelt was Ambassador to the United Nations and Edith Galt Wilson practically ran the whole country for her incapacitated husband.

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