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in 1936. Although she withdrew from the Class of 1940, in later interviews she would exclaim: "I'll never stop being grateful to my father for forcing me to go to college. It changed my life." In 1964 she was presented with an honorary
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Stevenson and Tree continued their affair through his unsuccessful 1956 presidential campaign. Afterward, however, Stevenson began to take other lovers. Tree also retained a connection to Huston, who gave her a role in his 1960 movie
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in 1952, the year of his first unsuccessful presidential campaign. Tree’s husband was unfazed by the affair, perhaps due to his bisexuality, and even invited Stevenson to the couple's homes in New York,
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Marietta began an affair with Tree during her visit to Barbados in 1945. Tree and Peabody divorced their spouses at the end of World War II and married on July 26, 1947. Marietta moved into Tree's home,
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Marietta Tree immediately joined the Lexington Democratic Club, and two years later was elected the county chairwoman. She was elected to the Democratic State Committee in 1954.
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movement gained momentum in the 1960s, Marietta refused to support its cause, and in 1967 she refused to sign three resolutions pertaining to women's rights.
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She and her husband remained married, though estranged. Ronald Tree died of a stroke on July 14, 1976, in London, while Marietta was in New York.
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characterized her political leanings as "a progressive, liberal figure who was mixed up with a lot of naive left-wing sympathizers." As the
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with Marietta, her daughter Frances Fitzgerald and their own daughter, future '60s fashion model Penelope Tree, and his butler Collins.
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Tree supported herself in later years by getting herself appointed to several well-paid directorships, including the boards of
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upon graduation to avoid college. When asked to predict her own future, she wrote down: "Parties, people, and politics."
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in December 1941, Marietta accepted a post as part of the American delegation assisting the
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During the war years, Marietta became romantically involved with the film director
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husband and apparently created tensions in the marriage. After America entered the
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Representatives of the United States to the United Nations Human Rights Council
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United States Representative to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights
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Tree died of breast cancer on August 15, 1991, at her home in New York.
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of Australia. She also served as women's trustee on the board of the
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Her father insisted that she attend college, and she enrolled at the
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and political reporter, who represented the United States on the
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Short of money, Tree sold Ditchley and agreed to return to
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On July 14, 1965, Tree and Stevenson were walking in
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Index

Lawrence, Massachusetts
New York City
St. Timothy's School
University of Pennsylvania
Desmond FitzGerald
Ronald Tree
Frances FitzGerald
Penelope Tree
Malcolm Endicott Peabody
Mary Elizabeth Parkman
Rev. Endicott Peabody
Henry Parkman
Henry Parkman Jr.
Endicott Peabody
socialite
United Nations Commission on Human Rights
John F. Kennedy
Malcolm Endicott Peabody
Lawrence, Massachusetts
Mary Elizabeth Parkman
Rev. Endicott Peabody
Groton School
Endicott
Henry Parkman
St. Timothy's School
Europe
finishing school
Florence
University of Pennsylvania
Doctor of Laws

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