Kennedy mụrụ na Brookline, Massachusetts ma gụsịrị akwụkwọ na Mahadum Harvard na 1940 tupu ọ banye na US Naval Reserve n'afọ na-eso ya. N'oge Agha Ụwa nke Abụọ, o nyere iwu ka a usoro nke PT ụgbọ mmiri na Pacific ihe nkiri na akwụ ndị Navy na Marine Corps Nrite maka ozi ya. Mgbe agha ahụ gasịrị, Kennedy nọchitere anya 11th congressional district nke Massachusetts na US House of Representatives si 1947 ruo 1953. A họpụtara ya na US Senate ma jee ozi dị ka onye omebe iwu sitere na Massachusetts site na 1953 ruo 1960. Mgbe ọ nọ na Senate, o bipụtara akwụkwọ ya Profiles in Courage, nke meriri Pulitzer Prize for Biography. Na ntuli aka onye isi ala nke 1960, Kennedy meriri onye mmegide Republican bụ Richard Nixon, onye bụ onye isi ala na-esote onye isi ala. N'oge Agha Ụwa nke Abụọ, ọ ghọrọ onye isi oche nke abụọ nke onye isi ala America nke na-achịkwa ụgbọ mmiri PT na Pacific ma nweta ndị agha na ndị agha Marine Corps Medal maka ọrụ ya.
Richard Nixon