John F Kennedy Biography Essay

John F. Kennedy was born in Brookline, Massachusetts on May 29th, 1917. As a child John went to many private schools and as a teen Kennedy attended the Canterbury parochial school from 1930 to 1931 and the Choate School from 1931 to 1935. One of his teachers later said that people in school liked him more for his personality than for his accomplishments. He was often ill during his childhood and spent much of this time reading. Kennedy enrolled at Princeton University in 1935 but illness soon forced him to withdraw. Upon recovery, he went to Harvard University, where he majored in government and international relations. During his junior year at Harvard. After John Graduated from Harvard University with honors he went to Stanford University …show more content…
Coming from a family devoted to public service, Kennedy desired a career in politics. In 1946, he became a candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives from the Massachusetts eleventh congressional district. Kennedy built a large personal organization for his campaign. In April 1952 Kennedy ran for a seat in the U.S. Senate against Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. a Republican liberal. Kennedy won by over seventy thousand votes. Lodge reeled under the impact. He had not run against a man, but a whole family. The Kennedy women alone had acted as hostesses to at least seventy thousand Massachusetts housewives. In 1958 Kennedy was reelected to the Senate. Kennedys record in elected office and the books and articles that he had written attracted national attention. After he lost the vice-presidential nomination at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in 1956, he decided to run for president. Formally announcing his candidacy in January 1960, Kennedy made whirlwind tours and won the Democratic primaries and then Kennedy was nominated for president, with Lyndon B. Johnson as his running