James Coats Auchincloss

Background

He was the son of Edgar Stirling Auchincloss (1847–1892) and Maria LeGrange Sloan.

Education

He attended the Cutler School in New York City, and the Groton School, Groton, Massachusetts. Graduated from Yale University in 1908. Engaged in financial and stock brokerage business in New York City 1908-1940.

Career

He was a governor of the New York Stock Exchange from 1921 to 1938. He was elected as a Republican to the Seventy-eighth and to the ten succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1943 – January 3, 1965). Was not a candidate for reelection in 1964 to the Eighty-ninth Congress.

In 1951, Auchincloss founded the Capitol Hill Club in Washington, District of Columbia He died in Alexandria, Virginia, aged 91 and was interred in Woodlawn Cemetery, the Bronx, New York City.

Achievements

• He served in the Seventh Regiment, New York National Guard from 1909 to 1913. During World War I served as captain, Military Intelligence. Deputy police commissioner of New York City. Founder, treasurer, president, and chairman of the board of the New York Better Business Bureau.

Membership

He was a member of the Rumson, New Jersey borough council from 1930 to 1937, and served as the borough"s mayor from 1938 to 1943.

Connections

Father:

Edgar Stirling Auchincloss

Mother:

Maria (Sloan) Auchincloss

Spouse:

Vera Rogers Brown

Spouse:

Lee F. Alexander

child:

Douglas Auchincloss

child:

Gordon Auchincloss