Kennedy Administration (January 20, 1961-November 22, 1963)
Vice President: Lyndon Baines Johnson Secretary of State: Dean Rusk Secretary of the Treasury: C. Douglas Dillon Secretary of Defense: Robert S. McNamara Attorney General: Robert F. Kennedy Postmaster General: J. Edward Day; John A.
Gronouski, Jr. (from September 1963) Secretary of the Interior: Stewart L. Udall Secretary of Agriculture: Orville L. Freeman Secretary of Commerce: Luther H. Hodges Secretary of Labor: Arthur J. Goldberg; W.
Willard Wirtz (from September 1962) Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare: Abraham A. Ribicoff; Anthony J. Celebrezze (from July 1962)
Supreme Court Appointments: Byron R. White (1962); Arthur J. Goldberg (1962)
Father: Joseph Patrick Kennedy (1888-1969)
Mother: Rose Elizabeth Fitzgerald Kennedy (1891-1995)
Wife: Jacqueline Lee Bouvier (1929-1994)
Marriage: September 12, 1953
Children: Caroline Bouvier (1957- ); John
Fitzgerald Jr. (1960-1999); Patrick Bouvier (1963)
John Kennedy was the first president born in the 20th century and the youngest candidate ever elected to the office.
He was the first Roman Catholic president.
His reelection to the U. S. Senate in 1958 was by the largest plurality ever given a candidate in Massachusetts up to that time—875,000 more votes than his Republican opponent.
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