Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

"Jacqueline Bouvier" redirects here. For the character from The Simpsons, the Simpson family, see # Jacqueline Bouvier.
"Jackie O" redirects here. For other uses, see Jackie O (disambiguation).

Jacqueline Lee Bouvier "Jackie" Kennedy Onassis (July 28, 1929 to May 19, 1994) was the wife of 35th President of the United States, John F. Kennedy, and served as First Lady of the United States during his presidency from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. Five years later, she married Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis, who remained married until his death in 1975. For the last two decades of his life, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis had a successful career as a book editor. He is remembered for his contribution to the arts and the preservation of historic architecture, style, elegance and grace. A fashion icon, the famous pink Chanel suit has become a symbol of the death of her husband and one of the enduring images of the 1960's.







Early Life


Jacqueline Lee Bouvier was born in Southampton, New York, Wall Street broker John Vernou Bouvier III (also known as "Black Jack Bouvier") and Janet Norton Lee. Jacqueline had a younger sister, Caroline Lee (known as Lee), born in 1933. His parents divorced in 1940 and his mother married the Standard Oil heir Hugh D. Auchincloss, Jr. in 1942. With Janet's second marriage was half-sister Jacqueline and her half-brother of James and Janet Auchincloss.


His mother's family, the Lees were of Irish descent, and his father descended from English and French ancestors. His maternal grandfather emigrated from Cork big, Ireland, and later became the superintendent of public schools in New York. Michel Bouvier, Jacqueline paternal great-grandfather was born in France and was a contemporary of Joseph Bonaparte and Stephen Girard. It was based in Philadelphia cabinetmaker, carpenter, merchant and real estate speculator. Michel, his wife, Louise Vernou was the daughter of John Vernou, a French immigrant and Elizabeth Clifford Lindsay snuff, a woman of American origin. Jacqueline's grandfather, John Vernou Bouvier Jr., was a noble lineage of his family in his book the story of family pride of our ancestors. Recent research and investigation by the cousin of Jacqueline, John H. Davis, in his book The Bouviers: Portrait of an American Family, refuted most of the lines of fantasy.

He spent his early years in New York and East Hampton, New York, Bouvier family estate, "Lasata". After the divorce of their parents, Jacqueline and Lee divides her time between her mother's home in McLean, Virginia and Newport, Rhode Island, and his father's house in New York and Long Island.  She attended the Chapin School in New York.

At an early age, became an enthusiastic horsewoman, and horse riding has remained a passion.

Education And Young Adults


Bouvier Holton-Arms School attended, based in Bethesda, Maryland, 1942-1944, and Miss Porter's School, located in Farmington, Connecticut, 1944-1947.

When the company debuted in 1947, the Hearst columnist Igor Cassini named "Newcomer of the Year".

From 1947, Bouvier spent his first two college years at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, then spent her junior year in France - at the University of Grenoble, in Grenoble and the Sorbonne, which is in Paris - In a study program abroad through Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. After his return to America, were transferred to George Washington University, located in Washington, DC, graduating in 1951 with a BA in French Literature College Graduation Bouvier coincided with obtaining the degree of his sister in high school and the two spent the summer of 1951 during a trip across Europe This trip was the subject of his autobiography, One Special Summer, .. - Co-written with her sister, who is also the only of its publications to feature his drawings.

After graduation, Bouvier was used as a "photographer to learn" for the Washington Times-Herald. The position required him to spiritual matters to people selected at random on the street and take their photos to be published with selected quotations from their responses in the newspaper. Meanwhile, she got engaged to a young stockbroker, John Husted, in three months.

Kennedy, Marriage And Family 



John Bouvier Kennedy and U.S. Representative belonged to the same social circle and often attended the same functions. In May 1952, at a dinner hosted by mutual friends, which was officially presented for the first time . The two began dating soon after, and his commitment was officially announced June 25, 1953.

Bouvier Kennedy, 12, married in September 1953, in St. Mary's Church in Newport, Rhode Island, in the Mass celebrated by Archbishop Richard Cushing of Boston. , about 700 guests attended the ceremony, and in 1200 attended the reception that followed at Hammersmith Farm.

Plourde was created wedding cake bakery Fall River, Massachusetts. , wedding dress, now housed in the Kennedy Library in Boston, Massachusetts, and his nurse made clothing designer Ann Lowe, New York City.

The newlyweds honeymoon in Acapulco, Mexico, before settling into his new home in McLean, Virginia . Kennedy suffered a miscarriage in 1955 and gave birth to a dead girl in 1956.That same year, the couple sold their real estate, Hickory Hill, Robert Kennedy and Ethel Skakel Kennedy wife, moving to a house on N Street in Georgetown. Kennedy gave birth to her second daughter, Caroline, in 1957, and a son, John, in 1960, both by caesarean section.