Life
Durant da Ponte was born on July 7, 1918 in New Orleans, Louisiana to Harry Graham da Ponte II and Julia Pratt. He was a direct descendant of opera librettist Lorenzo da Ponte. He was the oldest of three children, having a younger sister Lyndall, and a younger brother, Harry Graham da Ponte III. He married Martha Lee Osborne, a former professor of Philosophy at the University of Tennessee, and had two children, David and Graham. He died in a plane crash in 1964.
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