In 1952, he was elected the junior Senator from Massachusetts, and served in the Senate until he was elected president in 1960.
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It was named in honor of Charles Sumner, a U.S. Senator from Massachusetts (1811–74), who was a strong advocate of Kansas becoming a free state.