PERSON: Jake Auchincloss

U.S. House of Representatives

Member of Congress

Jacob Daniel Auchincloss (/ˈɔːkɪnklɒs/ AW-kin-kloss; born January 29, 1988) is an American politician and businessman serving as the U.S. representative for Massachusetts’s 4th congressional district since 2021. He is a member of the Democratic Party.

Jacob Daniel Auchincloss was born in Newton, Massachusetts, to Laurie Glimcher and Hugh Auchincloss. Both of his parents are physician-scientists; his mother is president and CEO of Dana Farber Cancer Institute, and his father, who is a surgeon, briefly served as acting director of National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), after Anthony Fauci resigned. Auchincloss’s maternal grandfather, Melvin J. Glimcher, was a physician who pioneered the development of artificial limbs and the robotic arm, and was inducted into the National Academy of Sciences. Auchincloss’s grandfather was first cousin once removed of Hugh D. Auchincloss Jr., “a member of one of Newport, Rhode Island’s most historically prominent families” and step-father of First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy (wife of President John F. Kennedy).

Auchincloss was raised in Newton with his sister Kalah and brother Hugh G. and attended Newton North High School. He is matrilineally Jewish and was raised in his mother’s faith. His father is of Scottish ancestry.

Auchincloss studied government and economics at Harvard University, graduating with honors. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps then returned to school and earned a Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) in finance from the Sloan School of Management of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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