Hugh D. Auchincloss

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Hugh Dudley Auchincloss, Jr. was an American stockbroker and lawyer who married Janet Lee Bouvier, the mother of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Auchincloss was born at Hammersmith Farm in Newport, Rhode Island. He was the son of Hugh Dudley Auchincloss, a merchant and financier, and Emma Brewster Jennings, daughter of Oliver B. Jennings, a founder of Standard Oil. His uncles were Edgar Stirling Auchincloss and John Winthrop Auchincloss. He had two older sisters, Esther Judson Auchincloss and Ann Burr Auchincloss. Auchincloss graduated in 1920 from Yale University, where he was elected to the Elihu Senior Society. He earned a law degree from Columbia University in 1924. Auchincloss served in the United States Navy during World War I and worked for the Office of Naval Intelligence and the War Department during World War II