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...

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The second was the fight of the Roman Catholic nobility. ... Kennedy was not only the first Irish president but was also the first Roman Catholic president. ... Seventy percent of our U.S. senate is from some sort of Irish decent. ...

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In 1953 after the war, he became congressman in Boston and later advanced to Senate. ... Winning against Richard Nixon with 118,574 votes, he became the first Roman Catholic president and also the youngest ever to take office. ...

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