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John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born of May 29 1917 and was the second son of nine children of Joseph Patrick Kennedy and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy The ancestors before him were of Wayford County in Ireland John F Kennedys father served as first chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission and a US ambassador to Great Britain during Franklin D Roosevelts administration His mother was the daughter of John F Fitzgerald who was also a political figure John F Kennedy attended elementary schools in Brookline and Riverdale Massachusetts until the age of thirteen After that he was sent to the Canterbury School in New Milford Connecticut Later he transferred to the Choate Academy in Wallingford Connecticut and graduated at eighteen For a short period of time he attended he attended college at Princeton but left because he had developed a case of page 3 jaundice In 1936 he enrolled in Harvard and majored in international relations and in government After graduating in 1940 he enrolled in the Stanford University graduate business school and dropped out six months later Soon after he joined the navy Career Background Kennedy ran for the US House of Representatives in 1946 and took his seat in Congress in 1947 and was reelected two more times in 1948 and in 1950 In 1952 with help from his family Kennedy campaigned for the Senate and won In June of 1956 Kennedy ran for Vice President only to lose to Estes Kefauver of Tennessee After his loss Kennedy began a new campaign for the Presidency Running for prez Kennedys running mates for the Presidency in 1960 were Richard Nixon and Harry Byrd One of page 4 the major issues being debated at the time was the Cold War with The Soviet Union Kennedys good looks wealth and his public debates on television helped him to win over Nixon and Byrd Kennedy had captured 303 electoral votes over Nixon
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