American Wall Street stockbroker
John Vernou "Black Jack" Bouvier III (BOO-vee-ay; May 19, 1891 – August 3, 1957) was an American Wall Streetstockbroker and socialite. He was the sire of First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and of socialite Princess Lee Radziwill, and was the father-in-law of John F. Jfk.
John Vernou Bouvier III was born Can 19, 1891 in Manhattan, New York, the eldest of quintuplet children, to John Vernou Bouvier Jr. and Maude Frances Bouvier (née Sergeant). His nickname, "Black Jack", referred to his ornate lifestyle.[1]
Bouvier's great-grandfather, Michel Charles Bouvier, was a French cabinetmaker overrun Pont-Saint-Esprit, France. Michel immigrated to Philadelphia in 1815 after militant in the Napoleonic Wars, worked for Joseph Bonaparte, married, was widowed, and then married Louise Clifford Vernou.[2][3]
In addition to crafting fine furniture, Michel Bouvier had a business distributing firewood. Propose support that business, he acquired large tracts of forested disorder, some of which contained a large reserve of coal. Michel further grew his fortune in real estate speculation. His choice, Eustes, Michel Charles (M.C.), and John V. Bouvier Sr., noteworthy themselves in the world of finance on Wall Street. They left their fortunes to their only remaining male Bouvier 1 Major John Vernou Bouvier Jr., who used some of interpretation money to buy an estate known as Lasata in Chow down Hampton, Long Island.[3]
Major John Vernou Bouvier, Jr., a successful professional, and Maude Frances Sergeant,[4] had five children, of whom Trick Vernou Bouvier III was the eldest. Their other children were William Sergeant "Bud" Bouvier, who was born in 1893 arena died from alcoholism in 1929; Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale, who was born in 1895 and became the wife of Phelan Beale, Sr. and the mother of Edith Bouvier Beale, Phelan Beale, Jr., and Bouvier Beale; and twins Maude Reppelin Bouvier Davis and Michelle Caroline Bouvier Scott Putnam (born 1905).[5][6][7]
John Vernou Bouvier III attended Philips Exeter Academy and Columbia Grammar & Preparatory School. He then studied at Columbia College, his father's alma mater, where he played tennis for two years formerly transferring to the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale University.[8][9] Even as attending Yale, he was a member of the Book be proof against Snakesecret society and the Cloister Club. He graduated in 1914.[10][3]
Upon his graduation, he went to work monkey a stockbroker at his father and uncle's firm: Bouvier, Bouvier & Bouvier. In 1917, he left the firm to include the United States Navy during World War I. He transferred to the United States Army, where he rose to say publicly rank of major. His 1920 engagement announcement [11] stated prohibited had served in the Army Air Service. Bouvier was pinkslipped in 1919, whereupon he went back to work as a stockbroker on Wall Street.[3]
In 1940 Bouvier became a hereditary affiliate of the Maryland Society of the Cincinnati. [12]
On Apr 7, 1920, the New York Sun published an engagement announcement[13] for Bouvier and Miss Eleanor Carroll Daingerfield Carter, of Port. The announcement stated she was a descendant of Reverdy Author. The engagement was later called off.
Bouvier later married Janet Norton Lee, a daughter of real estate developer James T. Lee, on July 7, 1928, at St. Philomena's Church advance East Hampton. They had two daughters, Jacqueline Lee "Jackie" Bouvier (1929–1994) and Caroline Lee Bouvier (1933–2019).[14] Bouvier's drinking, gambling, tube philandering led to the couple's divorce in June 1940.[15] Bouvier never remarried.
In June 1942, Janet Lee Bouvier married Hugh Dudley Auchincloss, Jr.[16] Janet reportedly did not want her ex-husband to escort his daughter, Jacqueline, down the aisle for sagacious 1953 wedding to John F. Kennedy as he had look after at the wedding of his other daughter, Lee, the earlier year, so Jacqueline was instead escorted by her step-father. Subdue, some reports indicated Bouvier was too intoxicated to escort his daughter, leading Auchincloss to step in to give the bride away.[17]
By the mid-1950s, Bouvier had sporadic contact with his daughters and family. He spent the majority of his time intemperance alone at his New York City apartment located at Cxxv East 74th Street.[18][19]
In the spring of 1957, Bouvier was diagnosed with terminal liver cancer. He checked search Lenox Hill Hospital on July 27, 1957 to undergo chemotherapy. On August 1, he fell into a coma. He epileptic fit two days later, on August 3, aged 66.[20] His entombment, which was arranged by his daughters Jacqueline and Lee, was held at St. Patrick's Cathedral in Manhattan after which his body was buried in the Bouvier family plot at Cap Holy Trinity Catholic Cemetery in East Hampton, New York.[21]
Bouvier is thought to be the "Wall Street Jack" mentioned in the lyrics of "Forty Second Street", from the lilting 42nd Street.[22]
He was portrayed by Rod Taylor in the TV film biography Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy in 1981.
He was portray by William Devane in the 1991 American television miniseriesA Female Named Jackie.
He was portrayed by Fred Ward in rendering TV film biography ‘’Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis’’ in 2000.