Connors (Jack Jr.) is born in Jamaica Plain.

The son of John and Mary (Horrigan) Connors, Jack Connors grows up in Roslindale and Dedham, graduates from Boston College, marries Eileen Ahern in 1966, and, with three friends, founds the advertising agency Hill, Holliday, Connors, Cosmopulos in 1968. He goes on to become one of the city’s leading civic leaders and a philanthropists. Connors serves on numerous boards of local non-profit institutions and helps create Camp Harbor View, a summer camp and social service center. He dies in Brookline on July 23, 2024.,