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Stuart S. Janney III

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Stuart S. Janney III
BornStuart Symington Janney III
🏫 EducationGilman School
🎓 Alma materUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
University of Maryland School of Law
💼 Occupation
Lawyer, financier, horseman
Known forOwner of Orb
👩 Spouse(s)Lynn Janney
👶 ChildrenMatthew Stuart Janney
Emily Janney
👴 👵 Parent(s)Stuart Symington Janney Jr
Barbara Phipps
👪 RelativesGladys Mills Phipps (grandmother)
Henry Carnegie Phipps (grandfather)
Ogden Mills Phipps (cousin)

Stuart Symington Janney III (born August 31, 1948)[1] is an American heir, lawyer, financier and horseman.

Early life[edit]

Stuart S. Janney III was born on August 31, 1948 in Baltimore, Maryland. He is the son of Barbara Phipps (1911–1987) and Stuart Symington Janney Jr. (1907–1988), a graduate of Princeton University and the Harvard Law School, where he was editor of the Harvard Law Review who owned the prominent racehorses Ruffian and Private Terms.[2] He has three sisters, Mrs. Rufus Williams, Mrs. William Trimble, and Mrs. Boykin Rose.[2][3]

His maternal grandparents were Gladys Livingston Mills (1883–1970), a socialite, thoroughbred racehorse owner and breeder who formed Wheatley Stable with her brother Ogden L. Mills in 1926 (children of Ruth née Livingston and Ogden Mills[4][5]), and Henry Carnegie Phipps (1879–1953), sportsman and financier who was a son of Henry Phipps Jr., a partner in the Carnegie Steel Company.[6] His paternal grandparents were Stuart Symington Janney (1874–1940) and Frances Moale (née Spencer) Janney (1882–1945).[7][8]

He graduated from the Gilman School and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.[9][10] He later received his J.D. from the University of Maryland School of Law.[9][10]

Career[edit]

Janney was a partner at Maryland the law firm Niles, Barton & Wilmer.[9] He served as legislative assistant to Charles Mathias (1922–2010), special assistant to the United States Secretary of State and foreign policy assistant to U.S. Senator Howard Baker (born 1925).[9]

Janney served as managing director of Alex. Brown & Sons from 1986 to 1994, the first investment bank in the United States founded in 1800 in Baltimore, Maryland, and Brown Advisory.[9] He has served on the boards of directors of Superior Essex, one of the largest wire and cable manufacturers worldwide, the Graphic Controls Corporation, a medical product company as well as King Ranch, Identity Group, Pride Manufacturing Company, LLC and Keystone Foods Holdings, The Rouse Company.[9]

Janney is chairman of the board of the Bessemer Trust, a wealth management and investment advisory firm for high-net-worth families.[9][11]

Janney sits on the board of trustees of the Johns Hopkins University and the Maryland Zoological Society.[9][12]

Equine interests[edit]

In 1988, Janney inherited the family stable and decided to move the breeding operation from Glyndon, Maryland to Claiborne Farm, where Seth W. Hancock (b. 1949) could take care of it.[10]

Janney serves on the boards of Trustees of the Keeneland Association, the New York Racing Association and The Jockey Club.[9] In 2013, his horse Orb won the Kentucky Derby.[10]

Personal life[edit]

Janney is married to Lynn B. Janney and resides in Butler, Maryland.[10] Together they have a son, Matthew Stuart Janney, who launched a luggage line called "Stuart & Lau" in 2016,[13] and a daughter, Emily Janney,[10] who married Nicholas Elliot in 2011.[14]

References[edit]

  1. "Stuart S. Janney III" (PDF). equibase.com. Breeders' Cup. Retrieved 18 February 2018.
  2. 2.0 2.1 "Stuart Janney, 81, Top Horse Breeder, Dies in an Accident". The New York Times. 24 September 1988. Retrieved 18 February 2018.
  3. Perrone, Vinnie (24 September 1988). "MD HORSEMAN STUART S. JANNEY JR. DIES AT 81". Washington Post. Retrieved 18 February 2018.
  4. "MRS. OGDEN MILLS DIES IN PARIS HOME; New York Social Leader Who Was Noted for Her Aristocratic Gatherings.HUSBAND AT HER BEDSIDE Mother of Countess Granard, Mrs.H.C. Phipps and Ex-Senator O.L. Mills Was Ruth Livingston". The New York Times. 14 October 1920. Retrieved 25 February 2017.
  5. "Ogden Mills Dies At His Home Here. Financier Is the Victim of Pneumonia After Three Weeks Illness. He Was 72 Years Old. Active in Many Philanthropies and Long a Leader in Social Affairs. A Native of California. Interested in Racing". New York Times. January 29, 1929. Retrieved 2013-12-18. Ogden Mills financier and father of Ogden L. Mills, Under-Secretary of the Treasury, died at 1:30 A.M. today at his home, 2 East Sixty-ninth Street, following an illness of more than three weeks. ...
  6. Alden Whitman (October 20, 1970). "Mrs. H.C. Phipps, Leader in Horse Racing, Dies; Wheatley Stable Owner, 87, Was Noted for Breeding of Winning Thoroughbreds". New York Times. Retrieved 2015-04-28. Mrs. Gladys Mills Phipps, widow of Henry Carnegie Phipps and celebrated for many years as the First Lady of the Turf, died yesterday after a short illness at Spring Hill, her Westbury, L. I., estate. The New York and Palm Beach society leader and owner of Wheatley Stable was 87 years old.
  7. Transactions of the Maryland State Bar Association. Annual Meeting of the Maryland State Bar Association. Maryland State Bar Association. 1940. p. 51. Retrieved 18 February 2018. Search this book on
  8. Leonard, John William (1914). Woman's Who's who of America: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporary Women of the United States and Canada, 1914-1915. American Commonwealth Company. p. 428. Retrieved 18 February 2018. Search this book on
  9. 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 9.5 9.6 9.7 9.8 Bloomberg BusinessWeek
  10. 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 10.5 Chris Korman, Maryland's Janney shuns limelight, even with Derby favorite Orb, The Baltimore Sun, May 01, 2013
  11. "Stuart S. Janney, III". www.americasbestracing.net. America's Best Racing. Retrieved 18 February 2018.
  12. Johns Hopkins University Board of Trustees
  13. Hudson, Kathy (18 July 2016). "Baltimore Fishbowl | Local Boy Matt Janney Launches Luggage Line Today -". Baltimore Fishbowl. Retrieved 18 February 2018.
  14. "Emily Janney, Nicholas Elliot: Weddings". The New York Times. 9 September 2011. Retrieved 18 February 2018.


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