James Richardson Houghton (April 6, 1936 – December 20, 2022) was the chairman of the board of Corning Incorporated.
[2] Houghton earned Bachelor of Arts and Master of Business Administration degrees from Harvard University (A.B., 1958, MBA, 1962).
On June 30, 1962, Houghton was married to May Tuckerman Kinnicutt at Christ Protestant Episcopal Church in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
[3] May, a graduate of St. Timothy's School and Radcliffe College, was the daughter of Sybil (née Jay) Kinnicutt and Francis Parker Kinnicutt,[8] a niece of decorator Sister Parish,[9][10] and a direct descendant of both Chief Justice John Jay and John Jacob Astor.
[8] Together, they are the parents of:[11] His wife is an author, who published a novel, under the name Maisie Houghton, entitled Pitch Uncertain: A Mid-Century Middle Daughter Finds Her Voice in 2011.