| Clare Boothe Luce  AKA Anne Clare Boothe
Born: 10-Apr-1903
Birthplace: New York City
Died: 9-Oct-1987
Location of death: Washington, DC [1]
Cause of death: Cancer - Brain
Remains: Buried, Mepkin Abbey, Moncks Corner, SC
Gender: Female
Religion: Roman Catholic
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Politician, Playwright
Party Affiliation: Republican Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Congresswoman, wife of Henry R. Luce
[1] The Watergate, Washington, DC.
Father: (businessman, violinist)
Mother: (dancer)
Husband: George Tuttle Brokaw (m. 10-Aug-1923, div. 1929)
Husband: Henry R. Luce (publisher, m. 1936, d. 28-Feb-1967)
Daughter: Ann Clare Brokaw (b. 25-Apr-1924, d. 11-Jan-1944 at Stanford University, auto accident aged 19)
Son: Henry Luce III (stepson)
Boyfriend: Bernard M. Baruch (extramarital affair, 1932-35)
Boyfriend: Randolph Churchill (extramarital affair)
Boyfriend: William Harlan Hale (extramarital affair)
Boyfriend: General Willoughby (extramarital affair)
High School: The Castle, Tarrytown, NY (1919)
Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board
US Ambassador to Brazil (1959, for three days, resigned)
US Ambassador to Italy (1953-57)
US Congressman, Connecticut (1943-47)
Vanity Fair Managing Editor (1929-34)
Vogue 1930
American Academy of Diplomacy Charter Member
Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute Namesake
Committee on the Present Danger
Council of American Ambassadors
Daughters of the American Revolution
Knights of Malta
Nicaraguan Freedom Fund
Presidential Medal of Freedom
Nervous Breakdown 1946
Converted to Catholicism 1946
Risk Factors: LSD
Is the subject of books:
Rage for Fame: The Ascent of Clare Boothe Luce, 1997, BY: Sylvia Jukes Morris, DETAILS: (biography)
Wrote plays:
Abide With Me (1935)
The Women (1936)
Kiss the Boys Goodbye (1938)
Margin of Error (1939)
Child of the Morning (1951)
Slam the Door Softly (1970)
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