Ancestry of
Anderson Cooper

Television Journalist

Gloria Laura Morgan Vanderbilt

View famous kin of Gloria Laura Morgan Vanderbilt

• • Mother of Anderson Cooper — 2nd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 3 
  • Father:
  • Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt 
  • Mother:
  • Gloria Maria Mercedes Morgan   
  • Birth Date:
  • 20 Feb 1924 
  • Birth Location:
  • New York, New York 
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  • Death Date:
  • 17 Jun 2019 
  • Death Location:
  • Manhattan, New York, New York 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Wyatt Emory Cooper
  • Marriage Date:
  • 24 Dec 1963 
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  • Child:

  Anderson Hays Cooper (Ahnentafel No:1 )

  • Notes: 

  • American Fashion Designer

    aka Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt

• Additional marriages for Gloria Laura Morgan Vanderbilt

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  • Spouse:
  • Leopold Anthony Stokowski

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  • Spouse:
  • Sidney Lumet
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1956

• Sources for Gloria Laura Morgan Vanderbilt

  • ¹ Muncie Evening Press (Muncie, Indiana), 22 FEB 1924, p. 12, Birth announcement for daughter of Reginald and Gloria Vanderbilt.
  • ² New York City, Marriage Indexes, 1907-1995, Marriage record for Sidney Lumet and Gloria Vanderbilt.
  • ³ Press and Sun-Bulletin (Binghamton, New York), 07 FEB 1956, p. 6, "Gloria Inherits Another Estate".
  • ⁴ The Kingston Daily Freeman (Kingston, New York), 11 FEB 1956, p. 14, "New Trouble for Gloria".
  • ⁵ The New York Times (New York, New York), 05 JAN 1978, Obituary for spouse Wyatt E. Cooper.
  • ⁶ IMDb, "Gloria Vanderbilt Biography", (accessed 12/02/2014).
  • ⁷ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 408.
  • ⁸ Roberts, Gary Boyd and William Addams Reitwiesner, American Ancestors and Cousins of The Princess of Wales, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (1984), 47-48.
  • ⁹ Wikipedia, "Gloria Vanderbilt", (accessed 12/01/2014).

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