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Marjorie Merriweather Post (March 15, 1887 – September 12, 1973) was an American businesswoman, socialite, and philanthropist. She was the daughter of C. W. Post and the owner of General Foods Corporation. For much of Marjorie Post's life, she was known as the wealthiest woman in the United States.
Apr 8, 2021 · Davies served consecutive ambassadorial assignments in Moscow (1937-38) and Brussels (1938-39), with Post by his side. While in the Soviet Union, it was Post’s job to help facilitate diplomatic relations between American and Soviet officials.
Mar 31, 2021 · Philanthropist, Art Collector, Diplomat. Post inherited the Postum Cereal Company in 1914 following the death of her entrepreneur father, C.W. Post, becoming one of the wealthiest women in the United States at the age of 27. In 1935, Post married the American diplomat Joseph E. Davies.
Jul 22, 2021 · Post married her third husband, Joseph E. Davies; Newlyweds Marjorie Merriweather Post and Joseph E. Davies, a 59-year-old Washington, D.C. lawyer, honeymooned on her yacht in 1935.
Jan 19, 2021 · Decades after Marjorie Merriweather Post thought she had accomplished her greatest ambition, Mar-a-Lago’s story, which might have once been a reminder of Palm Beach’s opulent past, today...
- Augustus Mayhew
His second wife was General Foods heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post, whom he married in 1935, shortly before undertaking his duties as US Ambassador to the Soviet Union. Post owned Camp Topridge on Upper Saint Regis Lake; when they returned from the Soviet Union, she built him a dacha at the camp. The couple divorced in 1955.
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DECEMBER 15 Marjorie Post Hutton marries Washington lawyer and lobbyist Joseph E. Davies in a private ceremony at 2 East 92nd Street, New York City. Davies is eleven years older than she. He has lived in Washington since 1912, when he moved from Wisconsin to work in the Woodrow Wilson administration.
