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timeline: John F Kennedy

  • 1917

    1917
    He was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, U.S.A. on Tuesday, May 29.
    His parents were Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. and Rose Fitzgerald. The couple had nine children. John was the second of them.
    During his first ten years of life, he lived in Brookline. He attended Edward Devotion School from kindergarten through the beginning of the third grade. During the fourth grade he attended a private school for men called Noble and Greenough, which was later renamed the Dexter School.
  • 1927

    1927
    moved with his family to a rented mansion in Riverdale, in the Bronx borough of New York City.
  • 1929

    1929
    Was a scout, a member of Bronxville Scout Troop 2, from 1929 to 1931, and was the first scout to become president of the United States.
  • 1935

    1935
    Graduated in June from Choate (in American law meaning completed or perfected in himself, or perfected, complete or certain) Kennedy in the college's end-of-year magazine was described as “The one most likely to become president.”
  • 1937

    1937
    He accompanied his father, who was appointed ambassador, to Great Britain and traveled to several countries. There he became interested in politics.
  • 1940

    1940
    Graduated in Political Science with the thesis Why England slept, on the attitude of Great Britain in the face of Hitler's warmongering.
  • 1942-1943

    1942-1943
    He joined the Navy and participated in World War II as a torpedo boat commander. He was wounded in combat with the Japanese and was decorated as a war hero.
  • 1945

    1945
    I work as a correspondent and enter political life.
  • 1946-1952

    1946-1952
    Elected to the House of Representatives for the Democratic Party from Boston.
  • 1952

    1952
    Elected senator from Massachusetts.
  • 1953

    1953
    Married Jacqueline Lee Bouvier, better known as Jacqueline Kennedy, future first lady.
  • 1957

    1957
    Wins the Pulitzer Prize for Profiles in Courage.
  • 1960

    1960
    He won the presidential election against Richard Nixon.