Family
Tweed was married three times and divorced twice. By his first marriage on June 14, 1914 to Eleanor Roelker, he had two children. Following his divorce in 1928, he married Blanche Oelrichs Barrymore, the former wife of John Barrymore who used the name Michael Strange in her acting and writing careers. They were divorced in 1942. He married Barbara Banning on 21 November 1942; they had one child.
His daughter Katherine Winthrop Tweed married Archibald Bulloch Roosevelt, Jr. in 1940 and was divorced in 1950. She had one son, Tweed Roosevelt, born in 1942.
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