Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis 1929 - 1994 A government biography indicates that Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis was born in 1929 in Southampton, New York. Her father, John Vernou Bouvier III, was a successful Wall Street stockbroker. Her mother, Janet Lee Bouvier, was an equestrian. Jackie spent her childhood in New York City and Long Island with her parents. In 1940 her mother divorced and remarried to Hugh D. Auchincloss II in 1942. Jackie then moved with her mother to Newport, Rhode Island (22-23). The government source also indicates that Jackie attended Miss Porter’s School for Girls in Connecticut and Vassar Co