The Life of John F Kennedy
John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born on May 29, 1917, in Brookline, Massachusetts, the second oldest in a family of nine children. Joe Junior, was born first, then Jack, Rosemary, Kathleen, Eunice, Patricia, Robert, Jean, and Edward. He was also the great-grandson of Irish immigrants who came to America in the 19th century. His great grandparents had come to the United States from Ireland in the mid-1800s after a famine caused severe poverty in that country. Although their families had not come to the United States with much money, both of John Kennedy's grandfathers became political leaders in Boston. One of them, John Fitzgerald (for whom he was named), was elected mayor in 1905. His father, the son of a saloonkeeper, had graduated from Harvard and at age 25 became the youngest bank president in the U.S. He was a highly skilled investor and money handler and made a fortune. Joseph Patrick Kennedy also became a very wealthy businessman, an adviser to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and the United States Ambassador to Great Britain from 1938 to 1940. In 1914 Joe Kennedy had married Rose Fitzgerald, the daughter of John "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald, a colorful Boston politician. As an infant he lived in a comfortable but modest frame hou
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