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Millicent Vernon Hammond Fenwick (February 25, 1910 – September 16, 1992) was an American fashion editor, politician and diplomat. A four-term Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from New Jersey, she entered politics late in life and was renowned for her energy and colorful enthusiasm. She was regarded as a moderate and progressive within her party and was outspoken in favor of civil rights and the women's movement. She was considered the inspiration behind Lacey Davenport, a fictional character in Garry Trudeau's comic strip Doonesbury. ==Early Life== Born Millicent Vernon Hammond, she was the middle of three children born to renowned politician and later Ambassador to Spain, Ogden Haggerty Hammond (October 13, 1869 – October 29, 1956) of Louisville, Kentucky and his first wife, Mary Picton Stevens (May 16, 1885 – May 7, 1915) of Hoboken, New Jersey.〔(Ogden H. Hammond ), The Lusitania Resource. Accessed August 9, 2008.〕〔(Mary Stevens Hammond ), The Lusitania Resource. Accessed August 9, 2008.〕 Her paternal grandparents were General John Henry Hammond (June 30, 1833 – April 30, 1890), who served as chief of staff for William Tecumseh Sherman during the Vicksburg Campaign,〔(''Commemorative Biographical Record of the Upper Lake Region'' ) (1905), p. 5.〕 and Sophia Vernon Wolfe (1842 – May 20, 1923), daughter of Nathaniel Wolfe, a lawyer and legislator from Louisville.〔("Mrs. Sophia Hammond Dies In Paris" ). ''The New York Times''. May 21, 1923. Accessed August 9, 2008.〕 Her maternal grandparents were John Stevens (July 1856 – January 21, 1895), oldest son of Stevens Institute of Technology founder Edwin Augustus Stevens and grandson of inventor John Stevens, and Mary Marshall McGuire (May 4, 1850 – May 2, 1905).〔(''The Cox Family in America'' ) (1912), p. 227.〕〔("John Stevens" ). ''The New York Times''. January 22, 1895. Accessed August 9, 2008.〕〔("Mrs. Mary M. Stevens Hyde" ). ''The New York Times''. May 3, 1905. Accessed August 9, 2008.〕 She had a sister, Mary Stevens Hammond, and a brother, Ogden H. Hammond, Jr. When Millicent was 5 years old, her mother perished in the sinking of the British ocean liner ''RMS Lusitania'', which her father survived. He remarried two years later, to Marguerite McClure Howland, and by that marriage Fenwick had a stepbrother, McClure (Mac) Howland.〔Shapiro, Amy. ''Millicent Fenwick: Her Way'' (2003).〕 She was a cousin of John Hammond, the well-known record producer. Raised in comfortable circumstances in Bernardsville, New Jersey, she attended the exclusive Nightingale-Bamford School in nearby Manhattan, Foxcroft School and college at Columbia University and the New School for Social Research. She married and divorced, and modeled briefly for Harper's Bazaar, then worked as a writer and editor at ''Vogue'' magazine for 14 years with a wardrobe and style to match the position. In 1948 she compiled ''Vogue's Book of Etiquette'', which sold a million copies.〔Lambert, Bruce. ("Millicent Fenwick, 82, Dies; Gave Character to Congress" ), ''The New York Times''. September 17, 1992. Accessed March 21, 2011.〕 In 1931, Millicent Hammond met Hugh McLeod Fenwick (February 17, 1905 – July 24, 1991), who was already married to the former Dorothy Ledyard, the daughter of New York attorney Lewis Cass Ledyard. He divorced his wife to marry Millicent on June 11, 1932. They had two children, Mary Stevens Fenwick (born February 25, 1934, died 1987) and Hugh Hammond Fenwick (born January 28, 1937; died 2002),〔(''NY Times'' death notice )〕 but separated a few years later and were divorced in 1945. Hugh Fenwick remarried while Millicent Fenwick did not. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Millicent Fenwick」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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