James M. Beck Jr.

[1] Beck graduated from Princeton University in 1914 before serving as First lieutenant in the aviation section of the Army Signal Corps in France in World War I.

[7] He was also a founder, and honorary chairman, of the Newport and Miami chapters of the English-Speaking Union, of which he had been a director of the national organization.

[12] Before their separation in 1936 and divorce in 1939,[13] James and Clare were the parents of twins:[7] In 1945, Beck remarried to Mary Ridgely Carter (1904–1974), a daughter of the Rev.

[17] Together, they lived in Newport and at 300 Park Avenue in New York City and were the parents of:[8] Beck died on December 4, 1972, at a hospital in Boston, Massachusetts.

[8] In 2014, the Beck's son Edward sold Plaisance, their Newport home overlooking an Atlantic-facing cove and Bailey's Beach, for $5,000,000.