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She was born Janet Norton Lee, the daughter of James Thomas Lee and Margaret A. Merritt, and she studied at Sweet Briar College , and later at Vassar , but did not graduate from either institution. Her paternal grandfather, a potato-famine Irish immigrant, was a superintendent of New York City public schools, though Janet Lee Bouvier preferred to tell people that he was a Maryland-born veteran of the United States Civil War. She married three times. Her first husband was , 1929 ) and Caroline Lee Radziwill (born on March 3 , 1933 ). Black Jack Bouvier's womanizing and drinking led to a separation in 1936, a brief reconciliation for a few months in 1937, and then a divorce in 1940. Janet's second husband was (1945-1985), who briefly dated John Kerry , the 2004 Democratic Presidential candidate, while she was a student at Miss Porter's ; and James Lee Auchincloss, born in 1947. Her third marriage, after Auchincloss' death, was to Bingham "Booch" Morris on October 25 , 1979 . Though they separated in 1981, the marriage lasted until her death eight years later. She died at 81 from Alzheimer's disease. REFERENCES
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