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John Fitzgerald Kennedy John Fitzgerald Kennedy was the 35th president of the United States. He was the youngest man and the first Roman Catholic ever elected to the presidency. Kennedy was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, on May 29, 1917. He briefly attended Princeton University, and then entered Harvard University in 1936. At Harvard he wrote an honors thesis on British foreign policies in the 1930s. It was published in 1940, the year he graduated, under the title Why England Slept. (“A Biography”) In 1941, shortly before the United States entered World War II, Kennedy joined the U.S. Navy. He attended a school to learn about the Patrol Torpedo boat. Kennedy was sent to the islands of the South Pacific Ocean where he was in charge of a Torpe