Jacqueline onassis Bouvier Kennedy

A woman with many talents, just like an artist with many mediums, Jacqueline Onassis Bouvier Kennedy was an exceedingly brilliant woman of her time. But a single title over shadowed the contributions Jacqueline Kennedy gave to the nation as the, “The Presidents Wife”, rarely was she acknowledged for her gifts. Named “Debutante of the Year,” she was simply known as “Jackie” to the American public.

Born in South Hampton, New York in 1929, Jackie Bouvier was the daughter of New York City Financer, John Vernou Bouvier III and Janet Lee Bouvier. Born of Irish and English decent , the Bouvier’s raised Jackie properly, but quickly divorced. Jackie then relocated to Rhode Island where she attended Vassar College. During her junior year in college she spent a year in Sorbonne in Paris, and returned to receive her degree in French Literature.

By 1952 Jacqueline Bouvier was about to become Jacqueline Husten, she was engaged to a wealthy stockbroker right out of college. But it was an engagement that did not go through. While working as a photojournalist for the Washington-Times Herald , she met a young candidate running for office , John F. Kennedy. They were married no less than a year later, on September 12, 1953

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