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 ente...
He was schooled in the religious teachings of the Roman Catholic church and the political precepts of the Democratic Party. ... Senate against the popular incumbent, Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. and Kennedy won. ... At age 43, Kennedy became the youngest elected President of the United States, and the first Roman Catholic ever elected ;winning by less than one percent of the popular vote. ...
John Fitzgerald Kennedy was the 35th President of the United States, the youngest person ever to be elected President, and the first Roman Catholic. ... As a candidate for the Senate, Kennedy promised voters that he would do more for Massachusetts than Lodge had done. ... In 1957 Kennedy became a member of the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and later won a place on the Senate Committee on Improper Activities in the Labor Management Field. ... When the convention opened, it appeared that Kennedy's only serious challenge for the nomination would come from the Senate majorit...
In 1947, he became a Democratic Congressman from Boston, and in 1952, successfully campaigned against Henry Cabot Lodge in Massachusetts to advance to the Senate. ... After winning the presidency in 1960 by a narrow margin, Kennedy became the 35th president of the United States, the youngest president ever elected, and the first Roman Catholic president. ...
John Fitzgerald Kennedy: A True American Hero In today's society what is wanted or accepted by most people is considered to be "popular culture."" The word popular is thought of as what is accepted by the majority, and the word culture, in relation to what is popular, refers to the people who decide for us what is good or bad. In our text, putting the words popular and culture together is said to be, "the products of human work and thought which are (or have been) accepted and approved of by a large community or population- (Nachbar and Lause 14). After researching popular culture I...
