John L. DeSaulles
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de Saulles as Yale football player
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May 25, 1878 South Bethlehem, Pennsylvania |
| Died | August 3, 1917 (aged 39) Westbury, New York |
| Education | Yale University |
| Occupation | American football player and coach, real estate broker |
| Spouse(s) | Blanca Errázuriz |
| Children | John L. de Saulles, Jr. |
| Parent(s) | Arthur Brice de Saulles Catherine Heckscher |
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John Gerard Longer de Saulles (May 25, 1878 – August 3, 1917) was an American football player and coach, real estate broker, and businessman whose murder by his millionaire wife (accused, but acquitted) led to a widely reported trial.
John "Jack" Gerald Longer de Saulles was born in South Bethlehem, Pennsylvania on May 25, 1878 to Arthur Brice de Saulles and Catherine Margaret Heckscher, a daughter of New York City merchant Charles August Heckscher. He became a star quarterback and captain of the Yale University's varsity team of 1901, being named to the 1901 College Football All-America Team by the New York Post. In 1902 he was appointed as head football coach at the University of Virginia, where he compiled an 8–1–1 record in one season.
In 1911, de Saulles travelled to Chile as representative of the South American Concessions Syndicate, a concern made up largely of Americans living in London, which was active in promoting the Trans Andean Railroad, connecting the railway systems of Chile and Argentina. While there, the 32-year-old de Saulles met 16-year-old Chilean heiress Blanca Errázuriz. They were soon engaged and on December 14, 1911 he married her at the English Catholic Church, in Paris, France.
The married couple settled in New York City, where he became a partner of the family-owned real estate firm Heckscher & de Saulles. He participated very actively in the 1912 presidential election, where de Saulles organised 72,000 college men for Wilson. In the campaign de Saulles and President Wilson became close friends, and he was rewarded with an appointment as U.S. Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Uruguay, but after the Senate had confirmed the appointment and even though he took the oath of office, he resigned before traveling to take up the post, explaining that his business interests in the United States made it impossible for him to accept.
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