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John Fitzgerald Kennedy, is the only Catholic and the first Irish president, and is the only president to have won a Pulitzer Prize, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963
Early life and education
John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born in Brookline, Massachusetts on May 29, 1917, the second son of his father. Kennedy lived in Brookline for ten years and attended Edward Devotion School, Noble and Greenough Lower School, and the Dexter School, through 4th grade. For the 5th through 7th grade, Kennedy attended Riverdale Country School, a private school for boys. For 8th grade in September 1930, the 13-year old Kennedy attended Canterbury School in New Milford, Connecticut. In late April 1931, he had appendicitis requiring an appendectomy, after which he withdrew from Canterbury and recuperated at home.
In September 1931, Kennedy was sent to The Choate School in Wallingford, Connecticut, for his 9th through 12th grade years.
In September 1935, he made his first trip abroad, with his parents and sister Kathleen, to London, with the intent of studying at the London School of Economics
As an upperclassman at Harvard, Kennedy became a more serious student and developed an interest in political philosophy. In his junior year he made the Dean's List. In 1940, pleted his thesis, "Appeasement in Munich", about British participation in the Munich Agreement. He initially intended his thesis to be private, but his father encouraged him to publish it. He graduated from Harvard College with a . cum laude in international 1940. His thesis, published that year as a book entitled Why England Slept, became a bestseller. Kennedy enrolled and audited classes at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. In early 1941, he helped his plete the writing of a memoir of his three years as an American ambassador and then traveled throughout South America.
Military service
In September 1941, after medical disqualification by the Army for his ch