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American journalist, author, and television personality. He is the primary anchor of the CNN news show Anderson Cooper 360°.
Cooper was born on June 3, 1967,[3] in New York City, the younger son of the writer Wyatt Emory Cooper and the artist, designer, writer, and heiress Gloria Vanderbilt. His maternal grandparents were millionaire equestrian Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt and socialite Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt, and his maternal great-great-great-grandfather was Cornelius Vanderbilt of the prominent Vanderbilt shipping and railroad fortune. He is also a descendant, through his mother, of Civil War brevet Major General Hugh Judson Kilpatrick, who was with General William T. Sherman on his march through Georgia.
Cooper's older brother, Carter Vanderbilt Cooper, committed suicide on July 22, 1988, at age 23, by jumping from the 14th-floor terrace of Vanderbilt's New York City penthouse apartment.
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This tree lists Cornelius Vanderbilt ("The Commodore") through Wyatt Morgan Cooper (the first son of Anderson Cooper). It is from the book, Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty by Anderson Cooper, 2021HarperCollins New York