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In November 1960, at the age of 43, John F. Kennedy became the youngest man ever elected president of the United States. Theodore Roosevelt had become president at 42 when President William McKinley was assassinated, but he was not elected at that age. On Nov. 22, 1963, Kennedy was shot to death in Dallas, Tex., the fourth United States president to die by an assassin's bullet.

Kennedy was the nation's first Roman Catholic president. He was inaugurated in January 1961, succeeding Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower. He defeated the Republican candidate, Vice-President Richard M. Nixon, by little more than 100,000 votes. It was one of the closest elections in the nation's history. Although Kennedy and his vice-presidential running mate, Lyndon B. Johnson, got less than half of the more than 68 million votes cast, they won the Electoral College vote. Kennedy thus became the 14th minority president.

Because of the close vote, election results were challenged in many states. The official electoral vote was Kennedy 303, Nixon 219, and Senator Harry F. Byrd of Virginia 15.

President Kennedy's great-grandparents immigrated to the United States from Ireland in 1858. They settled in Boston, Mass. His gra

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Burial at Arlington

The body lay in repose for a day in the East Room of the White House.

In his proclamation declaring Nov.

Kennedy gripped one of the jacket's straps between his teeth and towed the man as the crew swam to a nearby island.

While he was recuperating in 1955 he decided to write a book he had been contemplating for several years.

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During his campaign for the 1960 Democratic nomination, Kennedy often began his speeches with this remark: "Thanks for not voting for me in 1956. Close by her side at all times after her return to Washington, D. It functioned neither as a court nor as a prosecutor. Kennedy was criticized by some for having approved the CIA's support of the invasion. In 1948 John's sister Kathleen died in an airplane crash in the south of France. The 23rd Amendment to the Constitution was ratified early in Kennedy's administration.

John and his older brother were very close. It gave the president broad powers, including authority to cut or eliminate tariffs.

In the Senate Kennedy had woolen textile tariffs raised and urged President Eisenhower to obtain an agreement with Japan to cut textile imports.

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