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Kennedy, John Fitzgerald

Born
5/29/1917
Birthplace
Brookline, Massachusetts
Titles and Honors
Enlisted in Navy before Pearl Harbor, Commanded Pt Boat, heroicly rescued crew, received Purple heart
Education
1940 Graduated from Harvard, thesis published in book form, Why England Slept.
Notes
x-Thank you card for sympathies extended, from wife
56.277 Campaign material
61.81.1 Official inaugural medal
64.63.1 Rocking Chair used by
64.153.1 U.S. half dollar with picture of
64.154.1 U.S. half dollar with picture of
64.63.2 Photo of
64.63.3 to 64.63.13 ibid
65.22.1 campaign pin
67.2.47 campaign pin
Occupation
1946 elected to House of Representatives
1952 - elected to U.S. Senate
1957 - book, Profiles in Courage, won Pulitzer Prize for biography
1960 - won presidential election against Nixon, first Roman Catholic president, youngest president established Peace Corps- 35th U.S. President 1960-Nov.21, 1963
1962 - challenged Russian missle bases in Cuba
Spouse
Jacqueline Lee Bouvier, m. 1953
Children
Caroline,
John F. Jr.
Patrick Bouvier
Nationality
aMERICAN

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