Autobiographical Sketch of the Political Career Of John F. Kennedy

From my birth in 1917 I was seemingly fate for a political career. I am John Fitzgerald Kennedy, and my middle secernate of Fitzgerald would serve to remind the voters of Boston and Massachusetts of my maternal grandfather, Honey Fitz Fitzgerald, a beloved former mayor of Boston. During World War II I pulled all the political strings my wealthy family possessed in an social movement to be sent to the fighting, for I knew that after the war I would be a more viable candidate as a attack veteran.Virtually all of my early life revolved around politics, and both my quondam(a) brother and I understood we were meant for high office. My father, Joseph P. Kennedy often said that his son would be Americas first Catholic president. He would ascend to be prophetic.After the war, in 1946, I conducted my first campaign for congress (jfk depository library n.d.), enlisting the help of my sisters, my mother and my popular grandfather, going door-to-door on crutches as I recovered from my war wounds. I was elect on my first try.My goal from the beginning was the presidency of the United States and I use my familys money and political connections toward that end. I first had to have a national platform and I chose to seek a seat in the U.S. Senate. I was elected in 1953 and immediately began my assault on the nigh obstacle. In 1956 I broke a tradition of the Democratic political party by actively seeking the nomination for vice-present on the ticket headed by Adlai Stevenson (White House.gov n.d.).My brother Robert once joked that that I have been saved from that mistake by being denied the nomination, as Stevenson lost to the sitting president, Dwight Eisenhower, in a landslide. unsounded this honed my political skills and allowed me to build a national base for my assault on the presidential nomination in four years.In 1960 I was elected thirty-fifth president of the United States in the closest election ever conducted, narrowly beating out the sitting vice-presiden t, Richard Nixon (ibid).On November 22 of 1963 I made an doomed trip to Texas to mend some political fences within the party. I over-rode the advice of my guarantor detail, which wanted me to ride in a limo with a unbendable canopy. I wanted the crowd to have a better lot of my wife and me as we drove past them on the narrow streets of Dallas on a beautiful sunny day. As we were clear of the downtown canon shots rang out and I was assassinated as my wife and a cheery crowd looked on in horror. I was the youngest man ever elected president and the youngest man to die in office.Works CitedJohn F. Kennedy Library and Museum Biographies and Profiles KennethP. ODonnell Retrieved 3-2-08 fromhttp//www.jfklibrary.org/historic+Resources/Biographies+and+Profiles/Profiles/Kenneth+P.+ODonnell.htmThe White House John Kennedy Retrieved 3-2-08 fromhttp//www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/jk35.html