Editing Marjorie Merriweather Post (section)

=== Marriages ===
'''Edward Bennett Close''': In 1905, Post married investment banker Edward Bennett Close of [[Greenwich, Connecticut]]. They divorced in 1919. Together, they had two daughters:<ref name="NYTObit" />
*Adelaide Brevoort Close (1908–1998), who married three times,<ref name="Fabrikant">{{cite news| last1=Fabrikant| first1=Geraldine| title=Hillwood Museum Plans Society Bridal Exhibit| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/17/arts/design/hillwood-museum-plans-society-bridal-exhibit.html| access-date=December 9, 2016| work=[[The New York Times]]| date=March 16, 2011}}</ref> to Thomas Wells Durant, Merrall MacNeille, and Augustus Riggs IV.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ancestry.com/genealogy/records/adelaide-brevoort-close-24-cdz70|access-date=2021-02-25|website=www.ancestry.com|title=Adelaide Brevoort Close 1908-1998 - Ancestry®}}</ref>
*[[Eleanor Post Hutton|Eleanor Post Close]] (1909–2006), later known in the media as "Eleanor Post Hutton", married six times,<ref name="Fabrikant" /> to film director [[Preston Sturges]], Etienne Marie Robert Gautier, George Curtis Rand, [[Hans Habe]], Owen D. Johnson (son of author [[Owen Johnson (writer)|Owen Johnson]]), and orchestra conductor [[Léon Barzin]].
Via his second marriage, Edward Bennett Close would later become the paternal grandfather of actress [[Glenn Close]].

'''[[Edward Francis Hutton]]:''' Post was married for a second time, in 1920, to financier [[Edward Francis Hutton]]. In 1923, he became the chairman of the board of the Postum Cereal Company. Together they developed a larger variety of food products, including [[Clarence Birdseye|Birdseye Frozen Foods]]. The company became the [[General Foods]] Corporation in 1929. Post and Hutton divorced in 1935. They had one daughter:
* [[Dina Merrill|Nedenia Marjorie Hutton]] (1923–2017), better known as the actress [[Dina Merrill]].<ref name="NYTObit" />

[[File:Carlton Skinner aboard the Sea Cloud.jpg|right|thumb|alt=Marjorie Merriweather Post and her husband, Ambassador Joseph E. Davies, at center, with Carton Skinner at a presentation of a Naval Reserve Pennant.|Marjorie Merriweather Post and her husband Ambassador [[Joseph E. Davies]] (center) with [[Carlton Skinner]] at a presentation of a Naval Reserve Pennant on board her yacht ''[[Sea Cloud]]''.]]

'''[[Joseph E. Davies]]''': In 1935, Post married her third husband, [[Joseph E. Davies]], a Washington, D.C., lawyer.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.watertownhistory.org/articles/Addendums_to_Articles/Davies_Post_Wedding.htm  |title=Watertown Boy and The Battle Creek Girl |newspaper=The Milwaukee Journal |date=17 December 1935 |via=Watertown Historical Society}}</ref> They had no children and were divorced in 1955. From November 1936 to June 1938, in a crucial period leading up to [[World War II]], Davies served as the American ambassador to the [[Soviet Union]], ruled at that time by [[Joseph Stalin]]. Post accompanied Davies to Moscow, and they acquired many valuable Russian works of art from Soviet authorities at very reasonable prices.

'''Herbert A. May:''' Post's final marriage, in 1958, was to Herbert A. May, a wealthy Pittsburgh businessman and the former master of fox hounds of the Rolling Rock Hunt Club in [[Ligonier, Pennsylvania]]. That marriage ended in divorce in May 1964 and she subsequently reclaimed the name Marjorie Merriweather Post.<ref name="NYTObit" />