For jobs located in Wahkiakum County in 2015, about 54 percent were held by males, and 46 percent by femalesâwhile the state was split closer to 51/49. Three industries in the county are dominated by male workers: agriculture/logging (88 percent male), construction (82 percent) and manufacturing (61 percent).
Edward âTedâ Kennedy (1932-2009), the youngest brother of President John Kennedy (1917-1963), was a U.S. senator from Massachusetts from 1962 to 2009, making him one of the longest-serving senators in American history.
Pictures: Ted Stevens Through the Years. Stevens, a moderate Republican, was appointed in December 1968 and became the longest-serving Republican in Senate history. (The late Strom Thurmond was in the Senate longer than Stevens, but he spent a decade there as a Democrat before switching to the Republican party.) The wiry octogenarian was a legend in his home state, where he was known as Uncle Ted.. The crash that killed Stevens was not his first.