Lewis Polk Rutherfurd
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Lewis Polk Rutherfurd | |
|---|---|
| Born | August 3, 1944 |
| Alma mater | Princeton University Harvard University |
| Employer(s) | Inter-Asia Venture Management, Ltd. |
| Spouses | Katharine duPont Sanger
(m. 1989; div. 1994) |
| Children | 3 |
| Relatives | Winthrop Rutherfurd (grandfather) Frank L. Polk (grandfather) Levi P. Morton (great-grandfather) |
Lewis Polk Rutherfurd (born August 3, 1944) is an American-born financier who lives in Hong Kong. He was married to Janet Jennings Auchincloss, the half-sister of First Lady Jacqueline Lee "Jackie" Bouvier from 1966 until her death in 1985. In 1989, he married Katharine duPont Sanger, the granddaughter of Lammot du Pont II.[1]
Rutherfurd was born on August 3, 1944[2] to Alice Polk and Winthrop Rutherfurd, Jr. of New York and Fishers Island, former president of Coast Metals, a manufacturer of hard-surface metals in Little Ferry, New Jersey.[1] His grandfathers were Winthrop Rutherfurd and Frank L. Polk, Under Secretary of State in Woodrow Wilson's cabinet and named founder of Davis Polk & Wardwell,[3] and he is a great-grandson of Levi P. Morton, a Governor of New York who served as Vice-President of the United States under Benjamin Harrison.[4]
Rutherfurd attended Princeton University, graduating in 1966 with a bachelor's degree in East Asian Studies, and later Harvard, where he earned an M.B.A. with distinction from the Harvard University Graduate School of Business.[5]