On November 8, 1960, John F. Kennedy was elected president in one of the closest elections in U.S. history.  In the popular vote, his margin over Republican candidate Richard Nixon was 118,550 out of a total of nearly 69 million votes cast.  His success in many urban and industrial states gave him a clear majority of 303 to 219 in the electoral vote.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy was the youngest man ever elected president, the only Catholic, and the first president born in the twentieth century.

JFK’s Campaign of 1960

Source: jfklibrary.org

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