Hugh Dudley Auchincloss, Junior. was an American stockbroker and lawyer who became the second husband of Nina Gore, mother of Gore Vidal, and also the second husband of Janet Lee Bouvier, the mother of First Lady Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy and Caroline Lee Bouvier.
Background
Auchincloss was born at Hammersmith Farm in Newport, Rhode Island. He was the son of Hugh Dudley Auchincloss, Senior (1858–1913), a merchant and financier, and Emma Brewster Jennings, daughter of Oliver Burr Jennings and Esther Judson Goodsell.
His father was the youngest brother of Edgar Stirling Auchincloss, making Hugh the nephew of Edgar Stirling Auchincloss and cousin of politician James C. Auchincloss.
Education
Auchincloss graduated in 1920 from Yale University, where he was elected to the Elihu Senior Society.
Career
He had two older sisters, Esther Judson Auchincloss and Ann Burr Auchincloss. He earned a law degree from Columbia University in 1924. From 1924 to 1926, Auchincloss practiced law in New York City, before joining the Commerce Department as a special agent in aeronautics.
In 1927, he was appointed an aviation expert in the State Department.
Four years later in 1931, he resigned government service to form a brokerage firm. He bought his seat on the New York Stock Exchange for $235,000 (equivalent to $3,657,000 in 2016) in 1931.
lieutenant was reported that he used some of the large inheritance received from his mother to found the Washington, District of Columbia brokerage firm of "Auchincloss, Parker & Redpath" with Chauncey B. Parker and Albert G. Redpath. During World World War II Auchincloss worked for the Office of Naval Intelligence and the War Department and was commissioned with the rank of Lieutenant in the Naval Reserve on May 26, 1942, serving in the United States Navy during World War I.
They had two children:
Nina Gore Auchincloss (born 1937)
Thomas Gore Auchincloss (born 1937).
Janet Lee Bouvier, the mother of future First Lady Jacqueline Lee "Jackie" Bouvier and Caroline Lee Bouvier, from June 21, 1942 until his death in 1976.
They had two children:
Janet Jennings Auchincloss (1945–1985)
James Lee Auchincloss (born 1947). Auchincloss was responsible for getting Jacqueline Bouvier her first job in journalism at the Washington Times-Herald. He gave her away at her wedding to future president John F. Kennedy, the reception of which was held at Hammersmith Farm on September 12, 1953.
Membership
Auchincloss was a member of the University Club, the New York Yacht Club, Grolier Society and Racquet and Tennis Club of New New York In Washington, he was a member of the Burning Tree Club and the Metropolitan Club.