TLS, one page, 5.5 x 8.5, Hotel Bellevue letterhead, June 27, 1946. Letter to Constantine J. Calata, in full: "Your case has been called to my attention by Bill Kelley of East Boston. The facts as presented by him will be taken up with the Veterans' Administration and you will be advised as to what action will be taken on your case." Kennedy adds a handwritten and initialed postscript, "I will keep after that matter—J.F.K." In fine condition.
Following his stint as a foreign correspondent with Hearst Newspapers, Kennedy returned to America and stayed at the Hotel Bellevue in Boston where his grandfather John F. Fitzgerald, former Boston Mayor and U.S. Congressmen, was spending his retirement. When Kennedy decided to run for Congress in April 1946, his father rented a two-room suite for him at the hotel so he had an official residence in the Congressional district. With the support of his grandfather—and the family name—JFK was elected to Congress as a representative for Massachusetts's 11th district on November 5, 1946, and would take his seat in the House of Representatives on January 3, 1947. An early letter from the aspiring politician, promising to attend to veterans' affairs.
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