Kennedy was elected president in 1960.
The first Catholic to be elected president was John F. Kennedy. Kennedy served from January 20, 1961 until his assassination on November 22, 1963.
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John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy was the 35th elected president of the United States and served 1961-1963.
Kennedy began by running for and being elected to Congress in 1946.
William Howard Taft was 51 when elected U.S. President in 1908.Abraham Lincoln was 51 when elected to his 1st term in 1860.Barack Obama was 51 when elected to his 2nd term in 2012.
It was 1960.
One time - He was elected on his first try and was killed in his first term.
He was born in 1917 and was elected president in 1960 .
John F. Kennedy is currently the only Catholic US President. It's just Catholic, not Roman Catholic. Roman is an epithet first commonly used in England after the protestant revolt to describe the Catholic Church. It is never used by the official Catholic Church.