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Horne married Louis Jordan Jones, a political operative, in January 1937 in Pittsburgh. On December 21, 1937, their daughter, Gail (later known as Gail Lumet Buckley, a writer) was born. They had a son, Edwin Jones (1940–1970) who died of kidney disease. Horne and Jones separated in 1940 and divorced in 1944.
Lena Horne was a singer, actress, and activist who married Louis Jordan Jones in 1935 and divorced him in 1943. She was the first African American to sign a contract with MGM Studios and faced blacklisting for her alleged Communist sympathies.
May 10, 2010 · Horne married Louis Jordan Jones in January 1937. They had a daughter, Gail, and a son, Edwin. Horne and Jones were divorced in 1944 and she then married Lennie Hayton, a Jewish-American and ...
Sep 23, 1998 · Biography. Louis Jones is a part of US Black heritage. Louis Jordan Jones was born in 1908. The 1910 and 1940 censuses give his birth state as Illinois; the 1920 gives it as Kentucky. Louis married Lena Horne in 1937 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He died in 1998.
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- August 31, 1908
- Lena Mary Calhoun Horne
- September 23, 1998
Jul 20, 1986 · Because Lena broke up with her first husband, Louis Jones, when Gail was a baby, and because Gail was raised with Lena, while her brother, Ted, lived with Jones (Ted died of a kidney disease...
May 10, 2010 · At 19, Ms. Horne married the first man she had ever dated, 28-year-old Louis Jones, and became a conventional middle-class Pittsburgh wife. Her daughter Gail was born in 1937 and a son, Teddy, in ...
Sep 15, 1970 · The New York Times reports the death of Edwin Jones, the son of the legendary singer and actress Lena Horne, who died of kidney failure at the age of 29. The article traces his life and career as ...
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