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Jacob Daniel Auchincloss (/ˈɔːkɪnklɒs/ AWK-in-kloss; born January 29, 1988)[1] is an American
politician, businessman, and Marine veteran serving as the U.S. Representative for Massachusetts's
4th congressional district since 2021. He succeeded Joe Kennedy III. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
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Jacob Daniel Auchincloss was born in Newton, Massachusetts to Laurie Glimcher and Hugh Auchincloss.
Both of his parents are physician-scientists;[2]his father currently serves as Deputy Director to Anthony Fauci
at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). Auchincloss' grandfather is the first cousin
once-removed of stockbroker Hugh D. Auchincloss.[3] Auchincloss' step-father, Gregory Petsko, is a biochemist
and biotech entrepreneur who has become a global expert on Alzheimer's disease.[4] Auchincloss is Jewish,
having been raised in his mother's faith.[5][6]
Auchincloss's paternal great-grandfather, Harvey Bundy, was one of the architects of the Marshall Plan.
His maternal grandfather, Melvin J. Glimcher, pioneered the development of artificial limbs and was inducted
into the National Academy of Sciences.[7][8][9]
Auchincloss was raised in Newton with his two siblings and attended Newton North High School.[10]
Auchincloss studied government and economics at Harvard College, graduating with honors, and earned an
MBA in finance from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[11][12]
>his father currently serves as Deputy Director toAnthony Fauci
Hugh Dudley Auchincloss Jr. (August 15, 1897 – November 20, 1976) was an American stockbroker and lawyer who
became the second husband of Nina S. Gore, mother of Gore Vidal, and also the second husband of Janet Lee Bouvier,
the mother of First LadyJacqueline Kennedy Onassis(wife of President John F. Kennedy) and Caroline Lee Bouvier.
Early life
Auchincloss was born at Hammersmith Farm in Newport, Rhode Island in 1897. He was the son of Hugh Dudley Auchincloss
(1858–1913), a merchant and financier, and Emma Brewster Jennings. His maternal grandparents were Oliver Burr Jennings
and Esther Judson Goodsell. His uncles included Edgar Stirling Auchincloss, the father of U.S. Representative James C. Auchincloss,
and John Winthrop Auchincloss, the grandfather of Louis Auchincloss, an attorney and author.[1][2] He had two older sisters,
Esther Judson Auchincloss and Ann Burr Auchincloss.
Auchincloss graduated from Groton School in Massachusetts and then fromYaleUniversity in 1920, where he was elected to
the Elihu Senior Society. He earned a law degree from Columbia University in 1924.[3]
Career
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 wasappointed an aviation expert in the State Department.[4] Four years later in 1931, he resigned
government service to form a brokerage firm.[5]
In 1931, he bought his seat on the New York Stock Exchange for $235,000 (equivalent to $3,999,000 in 2020).[6] It was
reported that he used some of the large inheritance received from his mother to found the Washington, DC brokerage firm
of "Auchincloss, Parker & Redpath" with Chauncey B. Parker and Albert G. Redpath.[4] The firm eventually had 16 offices
with two in New York City and the rest spread along the East Coast. In 1970, the firm merged with Thomson & McKinnon,
a brokerage house based in New York. At the time of the merger, the new firm, known as Thomson & McKinnon Auchincloss,
had assets of $160 million (equivalent to $727,673,000 in 2020) and 58 offices. By the time of his Auchincloss' death in 1976,
the firm was known as Thomson & McKinnon Auchincloss Kohlmeyer.[3]
During World War IIAuchincloss worked for the Office of Naval Intelligence and the War Departmentand was commissioned
with the rank of Lieutenant in the Naval Reserve on May 26, 1942, serving in the United States Navy during World War II.[7]
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>During World War IIAuchincloss worked for the Office of Naval Intelligence and the War Departmentand was commissioned
>with the rank of Lieutenant in the Naval Reserve on May 26, 1942, serving in the United States Navy during World War II.[7]
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Personal life
Auchincloss was married three times and had five children. His first marriage was on June 4, 1925 to Maya de Chrapovitsky
(1899–1990), a Russian noblewoman. Before their divorce in 1932, they had one child together:
Hugh Dudley "Yusha" Auchincloss III (1927–2015)[8]
In 1935, he married Nina S. Vidal, the only daughter of Senator Thomas Gore. Nina had previously been married to Eugene
Vidal, a Roosevelt appointee, and with him had Gore Vidal, the author. Before their divorce in 1941,[9] they had two children:
Nina Gore Auchincloss (born 1937)[10]
Thomas Gore Auchincloss (born 1939)
On June 21, 1942, he married for the third and final time to Janet Lee Bouvier, mother of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Lee
Radziwill. They remained married until his death in 1976 and had two children together:
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.[11] A long-time financial contributor to the Republican Party, he contributed to the campaign of his
Democratic stepson-in-law, saying "I want to live in harmony with Mrs. Auchincloss and all the other members of the family."
Auchincloss died at his home in Georgetown on November 20, 1976 and was later buried at Island Cemetery in Newport.[3]
Club memberships
Auchincloss was a member of the University Club, the New York Yacht Club, Grolier Club and Racquet and Tennis Club of New
York. In Washington, he was a member of the Burning Tree Club and the Metropolitan Club.[9]