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Vance Vidal, Valerie Vidal Hewitt, Thomas Gore Auchincloss, and Nina Gore Auchincloss Steers Straight) and four stepbrothers from his mother's third marriage to Army Air Forces Major General Robert Olds, who died in 1943, ten months after marrying Vidal's mother. Vidal had four half-siblings from his parents' later marriages (the Rev. Gore Vidal's father also remarried, in 1939, to Katharine Roberts with whom he had two children. Auchincloss and second to Major General Robert Olds) and, according to Gore Vidal, she had 'a long off-and-on affair' with actor Clark Gable. She later married twice more (first to wealthy stockbroker Hugh D.

Gore Vidal's mother was a socialite who made her Broadway debut as an extra in Sign of the Leopard in 1928. The elder Vidal was also an athlete in the 19 Summer Olympics (seventh in the decathlon U.S. He served as director of the Commerce Department's Bureau of Air Commerce (1933–1937) in the Roosevelt administration.

In the 1920s and 1930s, he was co-founder of three American airlines: the Ludington Line, which merged with others and became Eastern Airlines, Transcontinental Air Transport (TAT, which became TWA), and Northeast Airlines, which he founded with Earhart, as well as the Boston and Maine Railroad. Vidal's father, was one of the first Army Air Corps pilots and, according to biographer Susan Butler, was the great love of Amelia Earhart's life. 'I wasn't going to write as Gene since there was already one. Vidal dropped both of his first two names, saying, he 'wanted a sharp, distinctive name, appropriate for an aspiring author or national political leader. The name Gore was added in honor of his maternal grandfather, Thomas Gore, Democratic senator from Oklahoma. Albans preparatory school, his future alma mater. then Gore was added at my christening then at fourteen I got rid of the first two names.' Vidal was christened by the headmaster of St. my birth certificate says 'Eugene Louis Vidal': this was changed to Eugene Luther Vidal, Jr. The middle name, Louis, was a mistake on the part of his father, 'who could not remember for certain whether his own name was Eugene Louis or Eugene Luther.' As Vidal explained in his memoir Palimpsest, '. on Octoin West Point, New York, the only child of 1st Lieutenant Eugene Luther Vidal (1895–1969) and Nina Gore (1903–1978). Gore Vidal was born Eugene Louis Vidal, Jr. Never afraid that his comments would be offensive and always enjoying media attention, Vidal constantly used his sarcastic wit and excellent command of the English language to state his views on life in no uncertain terms, which led him into several well-publicized spats with such figures as Norman Mailer and William F. Vidal did not just write about politics, he ran for political office twice and was a longtime political commentator.

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