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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—Massachusetts / USJohn Fitzgerald KENNEDY
(1917-1963)
Senate Years of Service:
1953-1960Party: DemocratKENNEDY, John Fitzgerald,
(brother of Edward M. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy, grandson of
John Francis Fitzgerald, and uncle of Joseph Patrick Kennedy II and
Patrick J. Kennedy), a Representative and a Senator from
Massachusetts and 35th President of the United States; born in
Brookline, Norfolk County, Mass., May 29, 1917; attended the public
and private schools of Brookline, Mass., Choate School,
Wallingford, Conn., the London School of Economics at London,
England, and Princeton University; graduated from Harvard
University in 1940; attended Stanford University School of
Business; during the Second World War served as a lieutenant in the
United States Navy 1941-1945; PT boat commander in the South
Pacific; author and newspaper correspondent; elected as a Democrat
to the Eightieth, Eighty-first, and Eighty-second Congresses
(January 3, 1947-January 3, 1953); did not seek renomination in
1952; elected to the United States Senate in 1952; reelected in
1958 and served from January 3, 1953 to December 22, 1960, when he
resigned to become President of the United States; chairman,
Special Committee on the Senate Reception Room (Eighty-fourth and
Eighty-fifth Congresses); unsuccessfully sought the Democratic vice
presidential nomination in 1956; elected thirty-fifth President of
the United States in 1960, and was inaugurated on January 20, 1961;
died in Dallas, Tex., November 22, 1963, from the effects of an
assassin’s bullet; remains returned to Washington, D.C.; lay
in state in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol, November 24-25, 1963;
interment in Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.;
posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom on December
6, 1993.
Bibliography
American National Biography; Dictionary of American
Biography; Burns, James M. John Kennedy: A Political
Profile. New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1961; Sorenson,
Theodore. Kennedy. 1965. Reprint. New York: Perennial
Library, 1988; Dallek, Robert. An Unfinished Life: John F.
Kennedy, 1917-1963. Boston: Little Brown Co., 2003.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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