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John F Kennedy in his Navy Dress Uniform
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In 1952 he ran again for the U.S. Senate against the popular incumbent, Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., and during the fall the Republican presidential candidate, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, carried Massachusetts by 208,000 votes; but Kennedy defeated Lodge by 70,000 votes. Less than a year later, on September 12, 1953, Kennedy married Jacqueline Lee Bouvier. Twelve years younger than Kennedy and from a socially prominent family.
Now, back in the Senate, Kennedy led a fight against a proposal to abolish the electoral college, crusaded for labor reform, and became increasingly committed to civil rights legislation. Overnight he had become one of the best-known political figures in the
Anyway, you will find that Kennedy never lost an election. His first opportunity came in 1946, when he ran for Congress. In the Democratic primary he received nearly double the vote of his nearest opponent; in the November election he overwhelmed the Republican candidate. He was only 29 years old. Kennedy served three terms in the House of Representatives (1947–53). He advocated for better working conditions, more public housing, higher wages, lower prices, cheaper rents, and more Social Security for the aged.