John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy, often referred to by his initials JFK, was the 35th President of the America, portion from 1961 until his assassination in 1963.After Kennedy's military service as commander of the Motor Torpedo Boat PT-109 through Second World War in the South Pacific, his aspirations turned into political. With the encouragement and grooming of his father, Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., Kennedy represented Massachusetts's eleventh congressional district in the U.S.
House of Representatives from 1947 to 1953 as a Democrat, and served in the U.S. Senate from 1953 until 1960. Kennedy defeated then Vice President and Republican candidate Richard Nixon in the 1960 U.S. presidential selection, one of the nearest in American history. He was the second youngest President, the first President born in the 20th century, and the youngest nominated to the office, at the age of 43. Kennedy is the first Catholic and the first Irish American president, and is the only president to have win a Pulitzer Prize.
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