Modern Era · North America · Politics
1960
Kennedy elected
November 8, 1960
In the closest presidential election in living memory, a forty-three-year-old senator from Massachusetts edged out Richard Nixon with help from Mayor Daley's Chicago. Kennedy would be the youngest elected president, the first Catholic, and the first of a televised generation. His inaugural promise to pay any price electrified a rising generation.
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