Nationality American | Name Janet Bouvier Role Socialite | |
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Full Name Janet Norton Lee Cause of death Complications from Alzheimer's disease Resting place Common Burying Ground and Island Cemetery Other names Janet BouvierJanet AuchinclossJanet Lee Auchincloss Morris Alma mater Sweet Briar CollegeVassar College Children Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Lee Radziwill, Janet Auchincloss Rutherfurd, James Lee Auchincloss Grandchildren Caroline Kennedy, John F. Kennedy Jr. Siblings Winifred Norton Lee, Marion Norton Lee Similar People John Vernou Bouvier III, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Hugh D Auchincloss, Janet Auchincloss Rutherfurd, Lee Radziwill | ||
November 22 1972 janet lee bouvier auchincloss at the grave of president john f kennedy
Janet Norton Lee Auchincloss Morris (née Lee, formerly Bouvier; December 3, 1907 – July 22, 1989) was an American socialite. She was the mother of the former First Lady of the United States, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
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- November 22 1972 janet lee bouvier auchincloss at the grave of president john f kennedy
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Personal life
Born Janet Norton Lee in Manhattan, New York City, she was the middle daughter of James Thomas Aloysius Lee (1877 –1968), a lawyer and real estate developer, and Margaret A. Merritt (1878-1943). Her parents were both of Irish descent. She had two sisters; Marion Norton Lee (1906 – 1947), who married John J. Ryan Jr., and Winifred Norton Lee (1912 – 1991), who married Franklin d'Olier.
Her first husband was John Vernou Bouvier III. They married in 1928 and had two daughters: Jacqueline Lee Bouvier (1929–1994) and Caroline Lee Bouvier (born 1933). Bouvier's womanizing and drinking led to a separation in 1936, a brief reconciliation for a few months in 1937, and then a divorce in 1940.
Her second husband in 1942 was Hugh Dudley Auchincloss Jr., an attorney and Standard Oil heir; she was his third wife. They had two children: Janet Jennings Auchincloss (1945 – 1985) and James Lee Auchincloss (born 1947).
Her third marriage, after Auchincloss's death in 1976, was to childhood friend Bingham Morris in 1979. They separated in 1981 but remained married until her death from complications arising from Alzheimer's disease in 1989.