Janet Auchincloss Rutherfurd

Who was Janet Auchincloss Rutherfurd?

Janet Jennings Auchincloss was an American socialite. She was also the half-sister of First Lady Jacqueline Lee "Jackie" Bouvier and actress Carole Lee Bouvier.

Janet was the daughter of stockbroker Hugh Dudley Auchincloss, Jr. and socialite Janet Norton Lee. Her younger brother is James Lee Auchincloss. In addition to elder half-sisters Jackie and Lee from her mother's first marriage to stockbroker John Vernou "Black Jack" Bouvier III, she had three elder half-siblings from her father's previous marriages: Hugh III, Nina, and Thomas.

Janet Auchincloss made her debut in 1963. She studied at the Potomac School in McLean, Virginia, and Miss Porter's School in Farmington, Connecticut, the alma mater of her half-sisters Jacqueline and Lee. She went on to study music history at Sarah Lawrence College. She briefly dated future Senator, Presidential candidate, and Secretary of State John Kerry.

On July 30, 1966, she married Lewis Polk Rutherfurd, a recent graduate of Princeton University and future financier. The couple moved to Hong Kong, where she later founded an overseas chapter of the League of Women Voters. They had three children: