JFK 35th President Of United States

John Fitzgerald Kennedy, also known as JFK, was the thirty-fifth and youngest President of the United States. He was born at 83 Beals Street in Brookline, Massachusetts on May 29, 1917. He attended many schools and finally graduated in June 1935 from The Choate School in Wallingford, Connecticut.

In September 1936, he enrolled at Harvard College and graduated with a degree in International Affairs in June 1940. JFK'S thesis, Why England Slept was published as a book and became a bestseller. He enrolled and audited classes at the Stanford Graduate School of Business from September to December 1940.

In September 1941, JFK was accepted in the U.S. Navy and served in the office, which supplied bulletins and briefing information for the Secretary of the Navy. The attack on Pearl Harbor occurred during this time. After naval training, he was assigned for duty in the Panama theater. He earned the rank of lieutenant and commanded a patrol torpedo boat. On August 2, 1943, a Japanese destroyer Amagiri crashed into Kennedy's boat, PT-109, throwing him across the deck.

In spite of being injured, he towed a wounded man to safety on an island. For this he received the Navy and Marine Corps Medal. Other honors include the Purple Heart, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal and the World War II Victory Medal. In 1946, JFK won the seat for US Representative of the Democratic Party and was a congressman for six years.

In 1952, JFK defeated Republican Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. for the U.S. Senate. On September 12, 1953, Kennedy married Jacqueline Lee Bouvier. In 1957, his book, Profiles in Courage, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Biography. In 1958, Kennedy was re-elected to a second term in the US Senate.

After a year-long campaign, he was finally sworn in as the 35th President at noon on January 20, 1961. Within months of his presidency, Kennedy ordered the previously planned invasion of Cuba on April 17, 1961.

Within two days the Cuban government captured the invaders. Also known as the Bay of Pigs Invasion, it was JFK's first failure. One of his first presidential acts was the creation of the Peace Corps, which would help underdeveloped nations in education, farming, health care and construction. The Cuban Missile Crisis, early events of the Vietnam War, the building of the Berlin Wall, the American Civil Rights Movement and the Space Race took place during his presidency. Kennedy signed the Partial Test Ban Treaty into law in August 1963.

Many memorials of Kennedy exist today, some of which are as follows. New York International Airport was renamed John F. Kennedy International Airport on December 24, 1963. It is also referred to as JFK. A major expressway in Chicago was renamed John F. Kennedy Expressway.

Florida State Road 60 in Tampa, Florida was renamed Kennedy Blvd in 1964. JFKs portrait has appeared on the US half-dollar coin since 1964. NASA's Launch Operations Center at Cape Canaveral became John F. Kennedy Space Center. Hundreds of schools across the US were named after him. In a Gallup list of the most admired people of the twentieth century, Kennedy came third. Wikipedia