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Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis's parents divorced in Janet Bouvier married a second time on , June 21, to Hugh D. Auchincloss She married a third time on , October 25, to Bingham Morris.

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Morris's first wife had been a bridesmaid in the wedding party of his second wife Janet Lee Bouvier. Ancestry: Irish, English, French, Scottish; Jacqueline Kennedy was half-Irish, her mother being the granddaughter of four immigrants from County Cork, who came to New York during the 's potato famine. Jacqueline Kennedy's paternal grandmother Maude Sergeant was the daughter of an immigrant from Kent, England.

Despite her maiden name, Jacqueline Kennedy's French ancestry was descent from one great-grandfather, making her only one-eight French. Auchincloss's first marriage to Maria Chrapovitsky, she had a step-brother, Hugh D. Although the author, playwright and social critic Gore Vidal has often been identified as a stepbrother to Jacqueline Kennedy, they both shared the same stepfather, but through different mothers.

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Physical Appearance: 5'8", brown hair, brown eyes Religious Affiliation: Roman Catholic; Although she married a second time to a divorced man in a ceremony of his Greek Orthodox faith, thus breaking her faith's tenets, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis did not convert and was buried with full rites of the Catholic Church. French literature, ; Georgetown University , Washington, D.

American history continuing education classes , Occupation before Marriage: At an early age, Jacqueline Kennedy wrote essays and poems which were sometimes published in local newspapers. In her high school newspaper Salmagundi, she penned a cartoon series and won the graduating award for literature. In , she submitted an entry to Vogue magazine's Prix de Paris contest, the prize for which was to spend half a year in New York, and the other half in Paris as a junior editor for the magazine.

The submission was rigorous, requiring an original theme for an entire issue, illustrations, articles, layout and design, an advertising campaign that could be tied into the issue's content. Named one of the twelve finalists, she was then interviewed by the magazine editors and out of 1, entries she won the contest.