A compilation of addresses and tributes as given in the United States Senate and House of Representatives on the life, character, and public service of the late President John Fitzgerald Kennedy Biography JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY, thirty-fifth President of the United States, formerly a U.S. Representative and a U.S. Senator from the State of Massachusetts, was born in Brookline, Norfolk County, Mass., May 29, 1917; son of Joseph P. and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy; attended the public schools of Brookline, Mass.; Choate School, Wallingford, Conn.; London School of Economics, London, England, in 1935 and 1936, and Stanford University; was graduated from Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., in 1940; married Jacqueline Lee Bouvier, September 12, 1953; children: Caroline Bouvier, born November 27, 1957, and John Fitzgerald, Jr., born November 25, 1960; during World War II served as a lieutenant in the United States Navy from September 1941 to April 1945; PT boat commander in the South Pacific; awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Medal and the Purple Heart; author of "Why England Slept," 1940, "Profiles in Courage," 1956, and "Strategy of Peace," 1960; engaged as correspondent for a news service and covered the San Francisco Conference, the British elections in 1945, and the Potsdam meeting in 1945; elected as a Democrat to the U.S. House of Representatives from the 11th Congressional District of Massachusetts to the Eightieth, Eighty-first, and Eighty-second Congresses (January 3, 1947-January 3, 1953); elected to the United States Senate in 1952 for the term commencing January 3, 1953; reelected in 1958 for the term ending January 3, 1965; nominated for the office of President of the United States by the Democratic Party at the convention in Los Angeles in 1960; elected President of the United States November 8, 1960, and inaugurated as the thirty-fifth President of the United States on January 20, 1961; resigned from the United States Senate December 22, 1960; died in Dallas, Tex., November 22, 1963, from the effects of an assassin's bullets while riding in a motorcade; remains returned to Washington, D.C., to lie in state for two days in the Rotunda of the Nation's Capitol; interment in Arlington National Cemetery, Fort Myer, Va. |