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Born on May 29th, 1917 to prominent Kennedy family, a family of Irish descenddescent that held sway over Massachusetts's politics. John was expose to politics as a young age touring the city of Boston in 1922 during his grandfather's failed attempt to become Governor of Massachusetts. Kennedy's youthyounger years was mostly unremarkable beyond his family's wealthy background with his older brother Joseph Jr. assumed to the son of Joseph Kennedy to advance the family prominence.

Despite that view among his family's members and teacher, John was admitted into Harvard University. While John had little initial interest in politics at college, preferring to focus on Footballfootball and his social life, he would develop an interest in political philosophy during the latter part of his college education. In 1938 and 1939, John would spend his summer breaks traveling Europe, it was there that John would developed a strong stance towards US intervening in Europe which created some tension with his father who preferred Isolationism. John's time in Europe would influence his senior thesis on the Munich Agreement, which was so well-received by his professor that it was shortly published as a book. In 1940, John F. Kennedy would graduated from Harvard with Bachelor of Arts in government, concentrating on international affairs. While he initially considering going to Stanford Business Graduate School or Yale Law School, he initially decided to instead help his father write his memoir about his ambassadorship in the United Kingdom.

In 1941, instead of deciding to go to Law School, John F Kennedy felt that America entry into the Second World War was immediate and decidedecided it was his duty to help his country fight in it. While rejectrejected from the Navy's officer academy due to a back problem he developed during his time playing for the Harvard football team, he was able to join the Navy Reserve thanks to his family's connectionconnections.'

While initially serving in the navyNavy reserveReserve as an intelligence officer, Kennedy wanted to fight on the front linelines and thanks to a fake medical record, was able to convince the navy to let him train to be the captain of a Patrol boatBoat. After finishing his training in the middle of 1942, he was initially stationed as a captain with the navyNavy forcesForces protecting the Panama Canal. Unhappy with guard duty, John convinced senatorSenator David Walsh to help him arrange a transfer to South Pacific.

While stationed in South Pacific, the Patrol boatBoat johnPT-109 John captained was cleaved in two by a Japanese destroyer. John survived the incident and famously rescued one of his subordinates by dragging back him to nearby island with his teeth dragging him by his life jacket. After working with men to contact the local natives, andthey givegave them a coconut shell with their location to give to the Navy, after which they were rescued.

This incident became highly publicized thanks to John's heroism and he was award both the Navy and Marine CorpCorps Medal andas well as the Purple Heart for his injuries. While initially returning to captain another PatrolPT Boat, John's back problems, which were only aggravated by injures ithe suffered when the Patrol boat was cleaved in half, lead to him spending the rest of war on medical leave. During this time, John would suffer a personal tragedy in 1944, when his older brother died during an air mission. He would then formally leftleave the Navy reserve when he was honorably discharged in early 1945 due to physical disability.

In 1952, Kennedy decided to further his political career by running for the position of Massachusetts' senator. An election he won and unseated an in-state republican rival. As senator, Kennedy focused on introducing bill to help the people of Massachusetts and the wider New England region. This focus along his personal charisma made him popular with his constituents leading his reelectionre-election in 1958 being widest margin of victory in the history Massachusetts politics. Of course, by this point, Kennedy was making plans for either the presidency or vice-presidency.