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Ed Kennedy, state senator from Lowell, dies at 74

State Senator Ed Kennedy, a Lowell native who served as a city councilor, county commissioner, and mayor of his hometown before joining the Legislature, died Wednesday, according to legislative officials. He was 74.

Kennedy had represented the First Middlesex District, a five-community district along the New Hampshire border, since 2019.

He served in some sphere of public office in five different decades, and “loved politics and he loved government,” said University of Massachusetts president Marty Meehan, who managed Kennedy’s first Lowell city council campaign in the late 1970s and knew him for 50 years.

“He was a kind, gentle person,” Meehan said Thursday. “He wasn’t negative. He was more the type of person to get along with people and try to work, and find resolutions to things. … I rarely saw him ever lose his temper in all the years I knew him.”

State Sen. Edward Kennedy of Lowell dies at 74

Sen. Edward Kennedy, a fourth-term Democrat from Lowell, has died, Senate President Karen Spilka informed senators early Thursday afternoon. He was 74.

A longtime member of the Lowell City Council before he was elected in 2018 to the Massachusetts Senate, Kennedy had been serving this session as Senate chairman of the Joint Committee on Bonding, Capital Expenditures and State Assets and Senate vice chair of the Joint Committee on Higher Education.

“He was a valued member of the Senate and passionate advocate for the people of the First Middlesex district. Ed was a champion for education, environmental sustainability, cultural development and, of course, his beloved hometown of Lowell. He will be deeply missed by all those fortunate enough to know him,” Spilka said in an email to senators and staff.

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