John F. Kennedy
Written By: Rudy Gonzalez
May 29,1917
35th President of the United States
In office
January 20, 1961 – November 22, 1963
Vice PresidentLyndon B. Johnson
Preceded byDwight D. Eisenhower
Succeeded byLyndon B. Johnson
Personal details
BornJohn Fitzgerald Kennedy
(1917-05-29)May 29, 1917
Brookline, Massachusetts
DiedNovember 22, 1963(1963-11-22) (aged 46)
Dallas, Texas
NationalityAmerican
Political partyDemocratic
Spouse(s)Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy (1953-1963; his death)
ChildrenArabella Kennedy
Caroline Bouvier Kennedy
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Jr.
Patrick Bouvier Kennedy
OccupationNaval officer, politician
ReligionRoman Catholicism
The following is a timeline of the presidency of John F. Kennedy, also known as the Kennedy Administration, which began January 20, 1961 when he was inaugurated President of the United States, and ended when he was assassinated on November 22, 1963, a span of 1,036 days. This timeline begins on January 2, 1960, the date when then Senator John F. Kennedy announced his intention to run for the Democratic Party presidential nomination and concludes on November 25, 1963, when the martyred president was buried. Kennedy was the first Roman Catholic elected President and the youngest individual elected to the presidency.[1] Kennedy was the eighth (and most recent) President to die in office and the fourth one to be assassinated.
Upon Kennedy's death, in accordance with Constitutional procedure, his Vice President, Lyndon B. Johnson, succeeded to the Office of the Presidency and took the oath of office of the President of the United States aboard Air Force One less than an hour after Kennedy died. Johnson served out the remainder of Kennedy's term, and was elected to the Presidency in his own right in 1964