 His marriage was on January 7, 1926 to Consuelo Vanderbilt (1903–2011), a daughter of the former Virginia Graham Fair and William Kissam Vanderbilt II.Consuelo, the sister of Muriel Vanderbilt, was also a granddaughter of William Kissam Vanderbilt, Alva Belmont, James Graham Fair, and a niece of Harold Stirling Vanderbilt and, her namesake, Consuelo Vanderbilt (the former Duchess of Marlborough from her marriage to Charles Spencer-Churchill, 9th Duke of Marlborough).Before their 1935 divorce, they were the parents of two daughters