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Gloria vanderbilt biography.
Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt
American socialite (1904–1965)
Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt (born Maria Mercedes Morgan; 23 August 1904 – 13 February 1965) was an American socialite.
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Vanderbilt was the mother of fashion designer and artist Gloria Vanderbilt and maternal grandmother of television journalist Anderson Cooper. She was a central figure in Vanderbilt vs. Whitney, one of the most sensational American custody trials in the 20th century.
Early life
Born at the Grand Hotel National[1] in Lucerne, Switzerland, as Maria Mercedes Morgan,[2][3] she was a daughter of Henry Hays Morgan, Sr.
(1860–1933), an American diplomat, who served as U.S. consul general in Buenos Aires, Argentina; Berlin, Germany; Amsterdam, Netherlands; Havana, Cuba; and Brussels, Belgium.[4][5] Her mother was his second wife, the former Laura Delphine Kilpatrick (1877–1956); the couple was married in 1894 and divorced in 1927.[6]