John Kennedy
a prominent Boston political figure who was the city's mayor and a three-term member of Congress. Kennedy lived in
Brookline for his first ten years of life. He attended Brookline's public Edward Devotion School from kindergarten
through the beginning of 3rd grade, then Noble and Greenough Lower School and its successor, the Dexter School, a
private school for boys, through 4th grade. In September 1927, Kennedy moved with his family to a rented 20-room
mansion in Riverdale, Bronx, New York City, then two years later moved five miles (8km)east to a 21-room mansion on
a six-acre estate in Bronxville, New York, purchased in May 1929. He was a member of Scout Troop 2 at Bronxville
from 1929 to 1931 and was to be the first Boy Scout to become President.Kennedy spent summers with his family at
their home in Hyannisport, Massachusetts, also purchased in 1929, and Christmas and Easter holidays with his family at
their winter home in Palm Beach, Florida, purchased in 1933