John G. W. Husted, Jr.

John Grinnel Wetmore Husted, Jr. (June 22, 1926 – May 9, 1999) was a stockbroker who was briefly engaged to future First Lady of the United States Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (Jackie) prior to her marriage to John F. Kennedy.

Husted was born in Hartford, Connecticut, a son of John Grinnel Wetmore Husted and Helen Armstrong. He attended school in England at Summer Fields School, Oxford. After his family returned full-time to the United States in 1939 to Bedford, New York he attended St. Paul's School (Concord, New Hampshire). He was in the American Field Service during World War II. He graduated from Yale University in 1950 and served 30 years at Dominick and Dominick in New York City. After retiring in 1982 he moved to Nantucket, Massachusetts. [ [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A0DE3D6153FF932A25756C0A96F958260 Death Notice - New York Times - May 11, 1999] ]

Husted's family was on the Social Register and were friends with Jackie's father John Vernou Bouvier III and stepfather Hugh D. Auchincloss. Jackie commuted to New York City from Washington, D. C. to date Husted, staying at her father's apartment on East 74th Street during the courtship. [Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis: A Life by Donald Spoto p. 83 - 2000 - ISBN 0312977077]

Jackie and Husted were engaged in December 1951 but Jackie called off the engagement in March 1952. It had already been announced in the New York Times on January 21, 1952. [Jackie: Her Life in Pictures by James Spada - Page 13 - 2001 - ISBN 0312280424] Husted was to say later that Jackie's mother Janet Lee Bouvier sabotaged the relationship because he did not make enough money for Jackie -- even though he was a stockbroker making $17,000/year. [Mr. and Mrs. President: From the Trumans to the Clintons By Gil Troy p. 95 - 2000 ISBN 0700610340] [A Woman Named Jackie by C. David Heymann p. 96 - 1990 - ISBN 0451165675] Jackie is reported to have told cohorts that Husted was "immature" and his work was too tame. [Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis by Stephen Birmingham p. 61 - 1978 - ISBN 0448143062]

Husted was late to a 1951 party at the home of Charles and Martha Bartlett in Washington where she first met Kennedy. After the dinner Kennedy escorted Jackie to a car asking her, "Shall we go somewhere for a drink?" When he opened the door Husted was sitting in the car and Kennedy withdrew. [Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis: A Life by Donald Spoto p. 83 - 2000 - ISBN 0312977077]

Kennedy and Jackie were to formally get involved in 1952 and married in September 1953.

Husted subsequently married divorcee Ann Frowert Hagerty, the former Mrs. John Sherrard Brittain III, on July 21, 1954 in New York City, New York. Ann was born July 20, 1925 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and died August 16, 1971 in Bedford, New York. Jack remarried on June 6, 1972 in London, England to Mrs. Elizabeth Hanbury-Williams Keeling, a twin daughter of the late Sir John Hanbury-Williams C.V.O. and Lady Hanbury-Williams. Jack Husted's 1999 death notice notes he was survived by his wife Elizabeth, daughter Pamela, son John, sister Anne, brother William, two stepchildren and seven grandchildren.

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