Marion Bartlett Thurber (February 22, 1885 - November 2, 1973) was an American political spouse who managed her husband's legacy after his early death.

[3][4] Her father was the personal secretary to Grover Cleveland beginning in 1893 and she spent some of her childhood in the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia.

"[10] Thurber said of herself that she was "a contented happy wife...absolutely free for a desire for worldly success.

Thurber would often perform ceremonial functions of a political spouse including christening boats and airships when her husband was the United States Secretary of the Navy.

[14][15] She was frequently in the society pages, such as when she was one of the main patronesses of the United Daughters of the Confederacy ball in Washington D. C. in 1921.