Tributes Wednesday poured in for Senator Ted Kennedy, the longtime Massachusetts senator who died Tuesday night at 77 after battling brain cancer for a year.

"An important chapter in our history has come to an end," President Barack Obama, vacationing at Martha's Vineyard, said Wednesday. "Our country has lost a great leader, who picked up the torch of his fallen brothers and became the greatest United States senator of our time."

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