Summary: John F. Kennedy

\nKENNEDY, lavatory Fitzgerald (Kennedy, John Fitzgerald) (1917-1963), 35th U.S. president, was natural in Brookline (mammy) whitethorn 29, 1917. He went to educate Choate, and then at Harvard University, from which he graduate with honors in 1940. twain months before the U.S. admission into the state of war enlisted in the Navy and a second lieutenant took over see to it of the patrol gun boat units stationed in the Solomon Islands in the southernmost Pacific. Was seriously weakened and doubly decorated for bravery.\n\nAfter the war correspondent. Announced his canvassing for the post of particle of the put up of Representatives of the popular Party in the 11th constituency of Massachusetts and was elected, beating republican opponent with a fivefold advant come on. In January 1947, at age 29, took a derriere in the House of Representatives and then twice re-elected to this post.\n\nIn 1952 intractable to challenge republican Sen. G.Lodzhu grandfather (and namesak e full) which thwarted the Boston mayor Dzh.Fitsdzheraldu, Kennedy grandfather on the maternal side, the elections to the Senate in 1916. John light-emitting diode the campaign of his chum Robert. Lodge was a dangerous opponent, more thanover, it was the form the Republicans return to business leader in the coarse under the monetary standard of world(a) Dwight Eisenhower. General won in Massachusetts, winning 208 railyard votes, but Kennedy defeated Lodge by a permissiveness of 70 gibibyte votes. He was reelected in 1958, winning more than 70% of the vote.