Given the love of positive press by the Kennedy family, if the John Bouvier who first wrote Bouvier's Law Dictionary was related to Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy, they would have been among the first to lay claim to this fact.
He married Jacqueline Lee Bouvier on September 12th, 1953. They were married in Saint Mary's Church in Newport, Rhode Island. He was thirty-six, she was twenty-four years old at the time.
The name of a 1961 book written by Mary Van Rensselaer Thayer. It was an unauthorized biography of the new First Lady, that included some exaggerated claims about the Bouvier family being descendants...