Jacqueline Lee Bouvier was born July 28, 1929, in Southampton, Long Island, New York. She enjoyed the country life with her parents and her younger sister Lee. In what became life-long interests, she developed an expertise at horseback riding, and enduring love of books, and a great delight in writing poetry. Jacqueline attended Miss Porter's School in Farmington, Connecticut where she excelled academically. She was accepted at Vassar and attended for one year. She then studied in Paris, becoming fluent in French, before transferring to George Washington University in Washington, DC were she earned a degree in French literature in 1951. Following her graduation, Jacqueline took a job as the "Inquiring Camera Girl" for the Washington Times-Herald, and met then-Congressman, soon-to-be-Senator, John F. Kennedy, at a dinner party. They were married on September 12, 1953. Jacqueline Kennedy became, at 31, the century's youngest First Lady and from the moment of her magnificent debut at the Inauguration, captivated the Nation and the world. This book is a collection of Memorial Tributes in the One Hundred Third Congress of the United States. In June of 1994 a "Resolution of Respect" to authorize the printing of statements made in tribute to the late First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis submitted by the Senator from Maine (Mr. Mitchell) and the Republican Leader (Mr. Dole), and others, was requested and without objection, it was so ordered. The resolution was agreed to, as follows: "Resolved, that there shall be printed as a Senate document a collection of statements made in tribute to the late First Lady of the United States, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, together with appropriate illustrations and other materials relating to her death."