John F. Kennedy

One of the sons of the 33rd president, Joseph P. Kennedy Sr, John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born on May 29th, 1917 outside Boston in Brookline, Massachusetts. Kennedy spent the first ten years of his life in Brookline, attending Edward Devotion School, The Noble and Greenough School, and the Dextre School. Then he moved out to Hyannis Port, a village on Cape Cod. He would eventually attend Choate, a prestigious boarding school in Connecticut, which his older brother, Joseph Kennedy Jr, also attended. At first, Kennedy was rebellious, spending his first years in his older brother's shadow. Despite this, he became the business manager of the school's yearbook and was voted  most likely to succeed . Kennedy joined the fight against the Empire of Japan in 1941, enlisting in the United States Navy and participating in the Solomon Islands Campaign. Kennedy retired from naval service in 1945, and, after an arrangement by his father, had a brief stint in Hearst Newspapers. In this role, he went overseas to Germany, covering several important post-war conferences, such as the crucial Hamburg Conference.

Kennedy entered American politics in 1947 as a member of the House of Representatives, taking the spot of James Michael Curley, who vacated the seat at Kennedy's fathers' behest. in his time as representative, he joined the Education and Labor committee, and the Veterans Affairs Committee, and concentrated his attention on international affairs as the Cold War began brewing. Soon after, Kennedy defeated Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. in the senate elections in Massachusetts in 1952. During his time as a senator, he sponsored bills that helped the fishing, textile, and watchmaking industries, and voted in favor of the Saint Lawernce Seaway, which would connect the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean. He would also marry future first lady Jacqueline Bouvier. Kennedy would run on a reform platform in the 1960 Presidential Election, wanting America to get back on the moderate New deal policies of his father and getting American troops out of Japan. He won in a close election and was inaugurated on January 20th, 1961. While he managed to get the army out of Japan, Kennedy still had to deal with the domestic affairs at home, such as civil rights; and foreign affairs, such as dealing with Bukharin's Soviet Union and forging bonds with Western Europe.