Oliver Gould Jennings (April 27, 1865 – October 13, 1936) was an American financier and an heir to a fortune from Standard Oil who served in the Connecticut House of Representatives.
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Early life and education
Jennings was born on April 27, 1865, in New York City. He was the youngest son of Oliver Burr Jennings (1825–1893) and Esther Judson (née Goodsell) Jennings (1828–1908). His older siblings were Annie Burr Jennings, a philanthropist, a philanthropist. Walter Jennings, Helen Goodsell Jennings (wife of Dr. Walter Belknap James), and Emma Brewster Jennings, wife of Hugh Dudley Auchincloss Sr.
His maternal aunt, Almira Geraldine Goodsell, was the wife of Standard Oil co-founder William A. Rockefeller, Jr. Through his sister Emma, he was the uncle of Hugh D. Auchincloss, whose third wife was Janet Lee Bouvier, mother of First Lady Jackie Kennedy.
Jennings attended Phillips Andover, graduated from Yale University, was an 1887 initiate into Yale's Skull and Bones Society, and later graduated from Columbia Law School.