The eldest son of late Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, new leader of Canada's Liberal Party.....

[a kennedy]

TORONTO — The eldest son of late Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau is the new leader of Canada's once dominant Liberal Party.

Justin Trudeau, a charismatic member of Parliament since 2008, won 80 percent party support on the first ballot Sunday. The 41-year-old takes over a party that dominated Canada for much of the last century but was regulated to third-party status in the last election.

Pierre Trudeau, who died at age 80 in 2000, was prime minister for almost all of a 16-year stretch from 1968-84. Sweeping to power on a wave of support nicknamed "Trudeaumania," Trudeau had a charisma reminiscent of another young, dashing politician who had captivated the U.S. eight years earlier – former President John F. Kennedy.

Trudeau's sophisticated, sometimes irreverent style fascinated Canada.

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