John F. Kennedy was born on May 19th, 1917 in Brookline, Massachusetts to a very wealthy family. He was Irish. John went to Edward Devotion School of Brookline up to the third grade then he went to Noble and Greenough Lower School and the Dexter school until the fourth grade. He finished his freshman year at The Cholate School. During his educational life he had many illnesses. He went to Harvard after Cholate. John was voted “most likely to become president” by his classmates. After he graduated, he went into the Navy. After a boat he was on got sunk he led survivors through waters to safety even though he had injurys himself.
When he came back from the war he bacame a Democratic Congressman. In 1953 he advanced to Senate. On September 12, 1953 he married Jacqueline Bouvier. When he had his back injury he wrote “Profiles in Courage and won the Pulitzer Prize in history. Kennedy almost got the Democratic nomination for Vice President but four years later he was a first-ballot nominee for President. Kennedy became the first Roman Catholic President.
Kennedy pledged to get America moving again. He also said “Ask not what your country can do for you- ask what you can do for your country. His economical programs launched the country on it’s longest sustained expansion since World War II. John F. Kennedy was killed on November 22, 1963. He was hardly past his first thousand days in office.
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