John F. Kennedy
"Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country"
•Elected 35th President after Eisenhower’s two terms
•Wins 1960 election, begins 1961with Vice-President Lyndon B. Johnson
•Defeats Richard Nixon
•Youngest President at 43
•First and only Catholic President
•Advocate of the Space Race
•Wins 1960 election, begins 1961with Vice-President Lyndon B. Johnson
•Defeats Richard Nixon
•Youngest President at 43
•First and only Catholic President
•Advocate of the Space Race
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Massachusetts' 11th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1947 to 1953 as a Democrat. Thereafter, he served in the U.S. Senate from 1953 until 1960. Kennedy defeated Vice President and Republican candidate Richard Nixon in the 1960 U.S. presidential election. He was the youngest elected to the office, at the age of 43
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