Hugh D. Auchincloss Jr.
Hugh Dudley Auchincloss Jr. (August 15, 1897 – November 20, 1976) was an American stockbroker and lawyer. He became the second husband of Nina S. Gore, mother of Gore Vidal, and also the second husband of Janet Lee Bouvier, the mother of First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (wife of President John F. Kennedy) and Caroline Lee Bouvier.
Hugh D. Auchincloss
November 20, 1976 (aged 79)
Common Burying Ground and Island Cemetery, Newport
Yale University (1920)
Columbia Law School (1924)
Stockbroker, lawyer
5, including Nina Straight and Janet Auchincloss Rutherfurd
James C. Auchincloss (cousin)
Hugh Auchincloss Steers (grandson)
Burr Steers (grandson)
Early life[edit]
Auchincloss was born at Hammersmith Farm in Newport, Rhode Island, in 1897. He was the son of Hugh Dudley Auchincloss (1858–1913), a merchant and financier, and Emma Brewster Jennings. His maternal grandparents were Oliver Burr Jennings and Esther Judson Goodsell. His uncles included Edgar Stirling Auchincloss, the father of U.S. Representative James C. Auchincloss, and John Winthrop Auchincloss, the grandfather of Louis Auchincloss, an attorney and author.[1][2] He had two older sisters, Esther Judson Auchincloss and Ann Burr Auchincloss.
Auchincloss graduated from Groton School in Massachusetts, then attended Yale University. After an interruption for service in the U.S. Navy during World War I, he was elected to the Elihu Senior Society and graduated in 1920. He also studied at Kings College at Cambridge, and earned a law degree from Columbia Law School in 1924.[3]