Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt (23 August 1904 - 13 February 1965) was a Swiss-born American socialite best known as 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. Born at the Hotel Nationale in Lucerne, Switzerland, as Mercedes Morgan, she was a daughter of Henry Hayes Morgan Sr, an American diplomat who was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, and grew up in Europe. He later served as the U.S. consul general in Buenos Aires, Argentina; Berlin, Germany; Amsterdam, Netherlands; and Brussels, Belgium. Her mother was his second wife, the former Laura Delphine Kilpatrick; the couple was divorced in 1927.