Patrick Joseph Kennedy

Patrick married Mary Augusta Hickey 23 Nov 1887, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA. Mary (daughter of James Hickey and Margaret Field Hickey) was born 6 Dec 1857, Winthrop, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA; died 20 May 1923, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet]

Joseph married Rose Fitzgerald 7 Oct 1914, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA. Rose (daughter of John Francis Fitzgerald and Mary Josephine Hannon) was born 22 Jul 1890, East Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA; died 22 Jan 1995, Hyannis Port, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet]

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John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy (May 29, 1917 - November 22, 1963), often referred to by his initials JFK, was the 35th President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963.

After military service as commander of the Motor Torpedo Boats PT-109 and PT-59 during World War II in the South Pacific, Kennedy represented Massachusetts's 11th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1947 to 1953 as a Democrat. Thereafter, he served in the U.S. Senate from 1953 until 1960. Kennedy defeated then Vice President and Republican candidate Richard Nixon in the 1960 U.S. presidential election. He was the youngest elected to the office, at the age of 43, the second-youngest President (after Theodore Roosevelt), and the first person born in the 20th century to serve as president. Kennedy is the only Catholic president, and is the only president to have won a Pulitzer Prize. Events during his presidency included the Bay of Pigs Invasion, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the building of the Berlin Wall, the Space Race, the African American Civil Rights Movement, and early stages of the Vietnam War.

Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas. Lee Harvey Oswald was charged with the crime, but was shot and killed two days later by Jack Ruby before a trial could take place. The FBI, the Warren Commission, and the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) officially concluded that Oswald was the lone assassin, with the HSCA allowing for the possibility of conspiracy based on disputed acoustic evidence. Today, Kennedy continues to rank highly in public opinion ratings of U.S. presidents.

John married Jacqueline Lee Bouvier 12 Sep 1953, St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church, Newport, Rhode Island, USA. Jacqueline was born 28 Jul 1929, Southampton, Suffolk, New York, United States; died 19 May 1994, New York, New York, USA; was buried 23 May 1994, Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet]