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Article: Kennedy, John F. 1917-1963
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KENNEDY, JOHN F. 1917-1963
President of the united states, 1961-1963
Seeking the Nomination
John Fitzgerald Kennedy was a promising young U.S. Senator from Massachusetts when his nominating speech for Adlai Stevenson at the 1956 Democratic National Convention caught the attention of party leaders and nearly won him the vice-presidential nomination. As soon as the 1956 election was over, he put together an impressively efficient and knowledgeable campaign staff and began running for the 1960 Democratic presidential nomination. Overcoming doubts about his youth and the prevalent belief that, as a Roman Catholic, he could not be elected president of the United States, he won his party's ...