A Short Biography of President John F. Kennedy

Born of Irish descent in May of 1917, Brookline Massachusetts native John F. Kennedy would eventually become the youngest man ever to be elected to the office of President of the Untied States of America. John Kennedy graduated from Harvard and in 1940 began a career of defending his country in the United States Naval Forces. Three years into his tour Kennedy’s boat was attacked by a Japanese destroyer and destroyed. Although suffering serious wounds in the attack the brave young man was able to lead the other surviving members of his outfit to safety.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy returned from war a hero and was elected the Democratic congressman in the Boston area. In 1953 he quickly advanced his political career to the Senate and that same year he married Jacqueline Bouvier. Two years later while he was in recovery from a back injury Kennedy wrote the novel Profiles in Courage which would win it’s author Pulitzer Prize in the history category.

1956 is the year in which John F. Kennedy narrowly missed the Democratic nomination for Vice President however four years later he successfully attained a position on the ballot as a presidential candidate. Millions of American citizens watched Kennedy’s debates against Republican candidate Richard M. Nixon that election year. John F. Kennedy would prove victorious and become the nation’s first Roman Catholic president with just a small margin in the popular vote.

His motivational inaugural speech with the historic comment “Ask not what your country can do for you-ask what you can do for your country.” was the beginnings of Kennedy’s promises of making the United States once again a productive nation. Innovative plans to jump start the country’s economy and ground breaking civil rights legislation where soon being produced from the young president.

Permitting an exhiled group of Cuban’s invade their former homeland to dethrone dictator Fidel Castro, President Kennedy’s attempt to help the country establish more basic human right’s ended in failure. Shortly after the Soviet Union once again renewed it’s plans to go to war with West Berlin and situated itself as a nuclear superpower in Cuba. Standing strong in the face of nuclear war John F. Kennedy proved the United States of America was a force to be reckoned with and made the Soviet’s back down from their nefarious plans.

Tragedy of epic proportions struck America on November 22, 1963 as not even one thousand days into his time in office John Kennedy was struck down by an assassin as his motorcade made it’s way through Dallas Texas. This unfortunate event made John F. Kennedy not only the youngest man to become president but the youngest to die while in office.