His presidency lasted for just over one thousand days. Kennedy was not only the youngest-elected president, at the age of 43 (the youngest to become president was Theodore Roosevelt, who was 42 at the time), but also the first Irish-American and the first Roman Catholic to hold the office (and the only one until Joe Biden, just over 57 years later), as well as the last US president (thus far) to die in office. The first president to be born in the 20th century and the 12th from the Democratic Party, he was known for his particularly inspirational turns-of-phrase in his speeches and overseeing an era of American history rife with social and political turmoil. ![]() Eisenhower and followed in office - after his assassination, which gave rise to a million Conspiracy Theories - by Lyndon Johnson. ![]() ![]() John Fitzgerald Kennedy ( November 22, 1963), often referred to by his initials of JFK * to his friends, family, and in any less-formal setting he was "Jack", as Lloyd Bentsen memorably reminded Dan Quayle in 1988), was the 35th President of the United States ( 1961≦3), succeeding Dwight D.
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