John Vernou Bouvier III (1892–1957) was a Wall Streetstockbroker who was the father of the late former First LadyJacqueline Kennedy Onassis and her younger sister, Lee Radziwill. 1892 was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... 1957 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... For other uses, see Wall Street (disambiguation). ... A stock broker or stockbroker or stock brokerage is someone or a firm who performs transactions in financial instruments on a stock market as an agent of his/her/its clients who are unable or unwilling to trade for themselves. ... A First Lady is the female spouse of an elected male head of state such as a President, Prime Minister, Premier or Governor. ... First official White House portrait. ... Caroline Lee Bouvier Canfield Radziwill Ross (born March 3, 1933 in Southampton, New York) is an American socialite, public relations executive, and former actress, best known as Lee Radziwill. ...
His nickname was "Black Jack" Bouvier, from his propensities for drinking and gambling, which helped lead to his divorce from Janet Norton Lee (1907-1989), his first wife, and mother of Jackie and Lee.
Her grandfather, known as "Grampy Jack" or "Grampy Bouvier" to his ten grandchildren and "the Major" to everyone else, was the center of summer family life at Lasata, the stucco, ivy-clad house on Further Lane.
When the Bouviers first arrived in East Hampton as summer visitors in 1912, the place was still a "simple" resort compared with the more sophisticated Southampton, with saltbox houses, a duck pond and a village green sheltered from the ocean by huge sand dunes.
Janet Bouvier was extremely highly strung, possibly as a result of a tense, unhappy atmosphere in the Lee household.
Janet Norton Lee Bouvier Auchincloss Morris (December 3, 1907–July 22, 1989) was the mother of United States First Lady Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis; she often stood in for her daughter as hostess for official White House functions; although as a social climber, she often felt that her daughter Jackie married beneath herself (e.g.
Her first husband, JohnVernouBouvierIII, also known as JohnVernou "Black Jack" BouvierIII, was Jackie's father.
John's womanizing and drinking led to a separation in 1936 and divorce in 1940.