- John Robert Powers was born on September 14, 1892 in Phillipsburg, New Jersey, USA. John Robert was a writer, known for The Powers Girl (1943) and Biography (1987). John Robert was married to Alice Hathaway Burton. John Robert died on July 19, 1977 in North Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
- SpouseAlice Hathaway Burton
- Owner of a modeling agency.
- Women who at one point worked for his modeling agency included Michele Carey, Anne Helm, Joan Caulfield, Mona Freeman, Betty Furness, Adele Jergens, Betty Ford, Grace Kelly, Elyse Knox, Dorothy Patrick, Rebel Randall, Joanne Dru, and Kim Basinger's mother Ann Cordell.
- By 1946, he ran one of the "Big Three" largest model agencies in the U.S. The other two agencies were Harry Conover and Walter Thornton.
- Had a daughter with wife Alice Hathaway Burton, named Patricia Hathaway Powers who was born on April 12, 1937 in Evanston, suburb of Chicago, Illinois and died on September 15, 1993. Patricia married William Recht Jr. in Manhattan, New York on April 18, 1962. She later remarried and changed her surname to Rainey.
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