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John Vernou Bouvier III was born May 19, 1891 in Manhattan, New York, the eldest of five children, to John Vernou Bouvier Jr. and Maude Frances Bouvier (née Sergeant). His nickname, "Black Jack", referred to his flamboyant lifestyle. [1] Bouvier's great-grandfather, Michel Charles Bouvier, was a French cabinetmaker from Pont-Saint-Esprit, France
John Vernou Bouvier Jr. was born in 1866 and inherited US$250,000 (equivalent to $4,436,047 in 2023) from the family, some of which he lost in the Wall Street Crash of 1929. He was also a successful attorney. [2] John Vernou Bouvier III, the son of J. V. Bouvier Jr married Janet Norton Lee in 1928.
In 1928, [6] she married her first husband, John Vernou Bouvier III (1891–1957). [9] He was the son of Major John Vernou Bouvier Jr. (1866–1948), a successful attorney, and Maude Frances Sergeant (1870–1940). [10] He was also the brother of Edith Bouvier Beale (1895–1977), later known as the subject of the documentary film, Grey Gardens ...
Caroline Lee Bouvier was born in New York City in 1933. She always went by her middle name. Her father John Vernou Bouvier III was a stockbroker and her mother Janet Lee was a socialite.
Daughter to stockbroker John Vernou Bouvier III and socialite Janet Lee Bouvier, Lee Bouvier was raised by a wealthy family that prioritized its status, and she was widely viewed as the leading ...
Caroline Lee Bouvier was born at Doctors Hospital in Yorkville, Manhattan, New York City, to stockbroker John Vernou Bouvier III and his wife, socialite Janet Norton Lee. [2] [3] [a] She attended the Chapin School, in New York City, Potomac School in Washington, D.C., Miss Porter's School in Farmington, Connecticut, and pursued undergraduate studies at Sarah Lawrence College. [5]
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John Vernou Bouvier Jr. (August 12, 1866 – January 15, 1948) [1] was an American Wall Street lawyer and stockbroker who was a patriarch of the Bouvier family.He was the father of John Vernou Bouvier III as well as a grandfather of First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and socialites Princess Lee Radziwill and Edith Bouvier Beale.