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He was the first president who was a Boy Scout.

He was the youngest ever to be elected president (Teddy Roosevelt was the youngest president, but he came into office due to the death of President McKinley).

His grandfather, John Fitzgerald, was mayor of Boston and a U.S. Congressman.

He won the Pulitzer Prize in history for the book Profiles in Courage.

Bobby Kennedy, John's younger brother, was one of his key advisors and headed up the Justice Department while John was president. Bobby later ran for president, but was assassinated before the election.

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Term: 196-1963
Vice President: Lyndon B. Johnson

The 1960 election campaign was dominated by rising Cold War tensions. Kennedy signs a limited nuclear test-ban treaty with the Soviet Union and the United Kingdom. Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty, formally Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapons Tests in the Atmosphere, in Outer Space, and Under Water, treaty signed in Moscow on August 5, 1963, by the United States, the Soviet Union, and the United Kingdom that banned all tests of nuclear weapons except those conducted underground.

South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem is assassinated in U.S.-supported coup. Kennedy is assassinated while riding in a motorcade in Dallas, Texas. Lee Harvey Oswald is arrested and accused of the crime.

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He became president in the election of 1960. He was a Democrat nominate. The main issues were how young he was and his religion because Americans believed that the catholic church would try JFK as president. He's slogan was "A time for Greatness"

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Before he was president he was U.S. congressman. He was a representative for Massachusetts. He was also a U.S. senator after his representation in the House.

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Kennedy enrolled at Princeton University in 1935 but illness soon forced him to withdraw. Upon recovery he went to Harvard University, where he majored in government and international relations. During his junior year at Harvard, he traveled in Europe and observed the events that were leading to World War II. After graduating from Harvard with honors in 1940, Kennedy went to Stanford University for graduate studies. In April 1941 he tried to enlist in the U.S. Army but was rejected for physical reasons

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Birthplace: Brookline, Massachusetts

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Mother: Rose Kennedy
Father: Joseph Kennedy
Kennedy was the second child to be born out of nine others. His father was a very famous politician and business person.
Growing up JFK went to Noble and Greenough Lower School for elementary school. They later moved to New York and he went to Riverdale for a little then transfer to Catholic Canterbury School in Connecticut. In 1931, he was enrolled in Choate and graduated. After that he went to Princeton and then went to Harvard. John Kennedy grew up in a household devoted to athletic activity. Tennis, swimming, touch football, water skiing, sailing and winter sports were family recreational staples.

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Wife: Jackie Bouvier
They meet in 1952 at a dinner party in Washington, D.C. We're introduced by mutual friends. They got married towards the end of 1953. He had four children in total but one was a miscarriage and the other was prematurely.