John F. Kennedy

BIRTH NAME
John Fitzgerald Kennedy

POLITICAL PARTY
Democrat

RELIGION
Roman Catholic

EDUCATION
Harvard S.B. 1940; Stanford Graduate School of Business

VITALS
6 ft 1 in / 173 lbs

CAREER
1941-43 Ensign, United States Naval Reserve, Office of Naval Intelligence, Washington, D.C
1943 Commander, PT-109
1944-45 Lieutenant, U.S. Naval Reserve
1945-47 Special correspondent, Hearst Newspapers, Europe
1947-53 U.S. Representative, Massachusetts
1953-61 U.S. Senator, Massachusetts

PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
November 8, 1960
Popular: Kennedy 34,226,731 (49.7%) Richard Nixon 34,108,157 (49.6%)
Electoral: Kennedy 303 Nixon 219 Harry Byrd 15

VICE PRESIDENT
Lyndon B. Johnson (1963-69)

ADMINISTRATION
23rd Amendment (D.C. electors), Peace Corps, Bay of Pigs, First American in space, Berlin Wall (1961); John Glenn orbits Earth, Cuban Missile Crisis (1962); Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech (1963)

SUPREME COURT APPOINTMENTS
Byron White, Arthur Goldberg

FIRST LADY
Jacqueline Lee Bouvier (1963-69)

“Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.”
Inaugural Address, January 20, 1961

Portrait of John F. Kennedy by Aaron Shikler, 1970.