John F. Kennedy is elected to represent the Eleventh Congressional District.

Kennedy (D), with 69,093 votes, defeats Lester Bowen (R), with 26,007 to represent the 11th District. Kennedy received 42% of the vote in a 10-person field to win the Democratic primary on June 18, 1946. After winning the seat previously held by James Michael Curley, who resigned after being elected mayor of Boston, Kennedy tells the Boston Globe, “People voted for me because of the things I might do, rather than for anything I have done.” Initially a resident of the Hotel Bellevue, he rents Apartment 36 at 122 Bowdoin Street in April 1946. Kennedy is reelected in 1950.