WASHINGTON — The nation’s 35th president, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, would have celebrated his 100th birthday on Monday.
Here’s a gallery of photos chronicling his life, his public service, his family and his legacy.
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![The future president holds a puppy in this August 1937 photo. (Courtesy John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum)](https://wtop.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/unknown2.jpg)
Courtesy John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum
![Future president John F. Kennedy, at right, with his PT-109 crew. (Collections of the U.S. National Archives, downloaded from the Naval Historical Center)](https://wtop.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/PT-109_crew.jpg)
Collections of the U.S. National Archives, downloaded from the Naval Historical Center
![John F. Kennedy, front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, is pictured as a 26 year old Navy lieutenant in Los Angeles, January 10, 1944. Kennedy had just returned from duty in the Pacific where he served as a PT boat skipper. He was decorated twice by the Navy for his exploits dodging the Japanese by swimming after his PT boat was cut in two by an enemy destroyer. (AP Photo)](https://wtop.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/AP_440110014-979x1254.jpg)
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![John F. Kennedy, winner of the Democratic Nomination for Congress in the 11th Massachusetts District, relaxes with his dog, Mo, June 22, 1946, Hyannisport, Mass. (AP Photo/Peter J. Carroll)](https://wtop.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/AP_6606220173-1132x1254.jpg)
AP photo/Peter J. Carroll
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![A photo-booth picture of John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier, circa 1953.](https://wtop.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/12-985x1254.jpg)
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![Photo courtesy Smithsonian American Art Museum's "American Visionary" exhibit, running May 3- Sept. 17, 2017: Jack with daughter Caroline, Georgetown, Washington, DC, March 25, 1958. © Ed Clark (Courtesy The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)](https://wtop.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/1-5-1596x1254.jpg)
Courtesy The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images
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AP photo, file
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![Shortly after his acceptance of the Democratic Party endorsement for President. Senator (and future US President) John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963) and his wife, future First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy (1929 - 1994), smiles and waves from the back of an open-top car, Massachusetts, July 1960. (Photo by Paul Schutzer/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)](https://wtop.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/14-985x1254.jpg)
Photo by Paul Schutzer/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images
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![U.S. Sen. John Kennedy, the Democratic presidential nominee, bites into some Iowa sweet corn at a home-style dinner in Des Moines, August 21, 1960 in Illinois. He and his running mate, Sen. Lyndon Johnson were in this city of the farm belt to tell how they would improve the agriculture situation. (AP Photo)](https://wtop.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/AP_6008210186-1286x1254.jpg)
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Photo by Paul Schutzer/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images
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![Vice President Richard Nixon, right, talks and Sen. John F. Kennedy listens in this view taken from television screen in New York, Oct. 7, 1960. The debate between the presidential candidates was broadcast nationally on TV and radio from Washington studio. (AP Photo)](https://wtop.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/AP_6010070370-1557x1254.jpg)
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AP photo/J. Green
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![Clutching a prayer book in his left hand, President-elect John F. Kennedy exits his car to attend Christmas Day mass at St. Edwards Catholic Church, Dec. 25, 1960 in Palm Beach, Florida. Kennedy attended the service alone; his mother and father attended an earlier mass. (AP Photo)](https://wtop.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/AP_601225040-1241x1254.jpg)
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Photo by Paul Schutzer/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images
![Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy has a chuck under the chin for her husband moments after he became president, January 20, 1961. This exclusive picture by AP photographer Henry Burroughs was taken in the rotunda of the Capitol just after President John F. Kennedy left the inaugural stand. (AP Photo/Henry Burroughs)](https://wtop.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/AP_6101200167-1682x1254.jpg)
AP photo/Henry Burroughs
![Former President Harry Truman autographs the inaugural luncheon program of President John F. Kennedy at the request of the new President in Washington, January 20, 1961. At left is Mrs. John Sparkman, wife of the Alabama senator. (AP Photo)](https://wtop.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/AP_6101200506-1275x1254.jpg)
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![Newly-elected President and Mrs. John F. Kennedy leave the White House, in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 20, 1961, for a series of visits to inaugural balls. The first lady wore her specially-designed haute couture white silk sheath and matching coat. As the 35th President of the United States, Kennedy defeated Vice President Richard M. Nixon in one of the closest presidential elections of the 20th century by a plurality of just 114,000 votes. The Kennedys brought a cultured and glamorous era known as "Camelot" to American politics. (AP Photo/Henry Burroughs)](https://wtop.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/ball_-jfk2.jpg)
AP photo/Henry Burroughs
![Ambassador Adlai Stevenson, the U.S. delegate to the United Nations, shakes hands with Martin Luther King Jr., president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Atlanta, Ga., at the White House in Washington with President John F. Kennedy at right. The meeting occurred as Kennedy met with members of the American Negro Leadership Conference on Africa. Historians generally agree that Kennedy's phone call to Coretta Scott King expressing concern over her husband's arrest in October 1960, and Robert Kennedy's work behind the scenes to get King released, helped JFK win the White House that fall. King himself, while appreciative, wasn't as quick to credit the Kennedys alone with getting him out of jail, according to a previously unreleased portion of the interview with the civil rights leader days after Kennedy's election. (AP Photo, File)](https://wtop.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/AP_213311334224-1060x1254.jpg)
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![. Caroline and John Jr. at play in the Oval Office, Washington, DC, October, 10, 1962 © Cecil
Stoughton (Courtesy John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum)](https://wtop.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/stoughton.jpg)
Courtesy John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum
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Photo by Art Rickerby/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images
![President John F. Kennedy is seen riding in motorcade approximately one minute before he was shot in Dallas, Tx., on Nov. 22, 1963. In the car riding with Kennedy are Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy, right, Nellie Connally, left, and her husband, Gov. John Connally of Texas. (AP Photo/Jim Altgens)](https://wtop.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/AP_6311220237-1514x1254.jpg)
AP photo/Jim Altgens
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AP photo/Carolyn Kaster
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![The future president holds a puppy in this August 1937 photo. (Courtesy John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum)](https://wtop.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/unknown2-260x174.jpg)
![Future president John F. Kennedy, at right, with his PT-109 crew. (Collections of the U.S. National Archives, downloaded from the Naval Historical Center)](https://wtop.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/PT-109_crew-260x174.jpg)
![John F. Kennedy, front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, is pictured as a 26 year old Navy lieutenant in Los Angeles, January 10, 1944. Kennedy had just returned from duty in the Pacific where he served as a PT boat skipper. He was decorated twice by the Navy for his exploits dodging the Japanese by swimming after his PT boat was cut in two by an enemy destroyer. (AP Photo)](https://wtop.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/AP_440110014-260x174.jpg)
![John F. Kennedy, winner of the Democratic Nomination for Congress in the 11th Massachusetts District, relaxes with his dog, Mo, June 22, 1946, Hyannisport, Mass. (AP Photo/Peter J. Carroll)](https://wtop.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/AP_6606220173-260x174.jpg)
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![A photo-booth picture of John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier, circa 1953.](https://wtop.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/12-260x174.jpg)
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![Photo courtesy Smithsonian American Art Museum's "American Visionary" exhibit, running May 3- Sept. 17, 2017: Jack with daughter Caroline, Georgetown, Washington, DC, March 25, 1958. © Ed Clark (Courtesy The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)](https://wtop.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/1-5-260x174.jpg)
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![Shortly after his acceptance of the Democratic Party endorsement for President. Senator (and future US President) John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963) and his wife, future First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy (1929 - 1994), smiles and waves from the back of an open-top car, Massachusetts, July 1960. (Photo by Paul Schutzer/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)](https://wtop.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/14-260x174.jpg)
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![U.S. Sen. John Kennedy, the Democratic presidential nominee, bites into some Iowa sweet corn at a home-style dinner in Des Moines, August 21, 1960 in Illinois. He and his running mate, Sen. Lyndon Johnson were in this city of the farm belt to tell how they would improve the agriculture situation. (AP Photo)](https://wtop.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/AP_6008210186-260x174.jpg)
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![Vice President Richard Nixon, right, talks and Sen. John F. Kennedy listens in this view taken from television screen in New York, Oct. 7, 1960. The debate between the presidential candidates was broadcast nationally on TV and radio from Washington studio. (AP Photo)](https://wtop.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/AP_6010070370-260x174.jpg)
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![Clutching a prayer book in his left hand, President-elect John F. Kennedy exits his car to attend Christmas Day mass at St. Edwards Catholic Church, Dec. 25, 1960 in Palm Beach, Florida. Kennedy attended the service alone; his mother and father attended an earlier mass. (AP Photo)](https://wtop.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/AP_601225040-260x174.jpg)
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![Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy has a chuck under the chin for her husband moments after he became president, January 20, 1961. This exclusive picture by AP photographer Henry Burroughs was taken in the rotunda of the Capitol just after President John F. Kennedy left the inaugural stand. (AP Photo/Henry Burroughs)](https://wtop.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/AP_6101200167-260x174.jpg)
![Former President Harry Truman autographs the inaugural luncheon program of President John F. Kennedy at the request of the new President in Washington, January 20, 1961. At left is Mrs. John Sparkman, wife of the Alabama senator. (AP Photo)](https://wtop.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/AP_6101200506-260x174.jpg)
![Newly-elected President and Mrs. John F. Kennedy leave the White House, in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 20, 1961, for a series of visits to inaugural balls. The first lady wore her specially-designed haute couture white silk sheath and matching coat. As the 35th President of the United States, Kennedy defeated Vice President Richard M. Nixon in one of the closest presidential elections of the 20th century by a plurality of just 114,000 votes. The Kennedys brought a cultured and glamorous era known as "Camelot" to American politics. (AP Photo/Henry Burroughs)](https://wtop.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/ball_-jfk2-260x174.jpg)
![Ambassador Adlai Stevenson, the U.S. delegate to the United Nations, shakes hands with Martin Luther King Jr., president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Atlanta, Ga., at the White House in Washington with President John F. Kennedy at right. The meeting occurred as Kennedy met with members of the American Negro Leadership Conference on Africa. Historians generally agree that Kennedy's phone call to Coretta Scott King expressing concern over her husband's arrest in October 1960, and Robert Kennedy's work behind the scenes to get King released, helped JFK win the White House that fall. King himself, while appreciative, wasn't as quick to credit the Kennedys alone with getting him out of jail, according to a previously unreleased portion of the interview with the civil rights leader days after Kennedy's election. (AP Photo, File)](https://wtop.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/AP_213311334224-260x174.jpg)
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![. Caroline and John Jr. at play in the Oval Office, Washington, DC, October, 10, 1962 © Cecil
Stoughton (Courtesy John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum)](https://wtop.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/stoughton-260x174.jpg)
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![President John F. Kennedy is seen riding in motorcade approximately one minute before he was shot in Dallas, Tx., on Nov. 22, 1963. In the car riding with Kennedy are Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy, right, Nellie Connally, left, and her husband, Gov. John Connally of Texas. (AP Photo/Jim Altgens)](https://wtop.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/AP_6311220237-260x174.jpg)
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