Julia Thorne
Julia Thorne | |
|---|---|
| Second Lady of Massachusetts | |
| In role March 6, 1983 – January 2, 1985 | |
| Governor | Michael Dukakis |
| Preceded by | Susan Dwight (1975) |
| Succeeded by | Jan Cellucci (1991) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Julia Stimson Thorne September 16, 1944 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Died | April 27, 2006 (aged 61) Concord, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Cause of death | Bladder cancer |
| Spouse(s) | John Kerry (m. 1970; div. 1988) Richard Charlesworth (m. 1997) |
| Children | Alexandra Kerry Vanessa Kerry |
| Relatives | David Thorne (twin brother) |
| Occupation | Writer |
Julia Stimson Thorne (September 16, 1944 – April 27, 2006) was an American writer and the first wife of former U.S. Senator and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry.
Biography[edit]
Thorne was born in New York City on September 16, 1944, the daughter of Alice and Landon K. Thorne, Jr.[1] Her maternal great-grandfather was journalist David S. Barry and her paternal great-great-grandfather was Alfred Lebbeus Loomis, a physician who served as president of the Association of American Physicians. Her brothers are Landon Ketchum Thorne III of Beaufort, South Carolina, and her twin brother David Thorne of Brookline, Massachusetts. She spent much of her childhood in Rome [2]and attended the international school, Marymount in Rome while her brother David attended the Overseas School of Rome. Her father had been appointed to a diplomatic post and was publisher of The Voice of the Daily American. She attended the Foxcroft School in Middleburg, Virginia. She took classes at the New York School of Interior Design and Radcliffe College.
Thorne met Kerry in 1963 at her family's estate in Bay Shore, New York, on Long Island. Kerry was a Yale classmate of Thorne's twin brother David. Thorne married Kerry on May 23, 1970, and divorced on July 25, 1988, after a six-year separation. She and John had two daughters together, Alexandra Forbes Kerry and Vanessa Bradford Kerry.[1]
During their marriage, Julia began showing signs of depression and later wrote that she had at one time contemplated suicide.[2]
In the 1980s, she created a nonprofit called the Depression Initiative to educate people about depression.[1]
She overcame depression by 1990, and by all accounts the two had an amicable relationship.[3]
She married Richard J. Charlesworth in 1997 and they moved to Bozeman, Montana.[1] On May 7, 1997, two years after his remarriage, Kerry publicly announced that he had requested an annulment from the Roman Catholic Church of his marriage to Thorne.
Kerry's 2004 presidential campaign[edit]
She endorsed Kerry's 2004 presidential campaign, stating, "I think he is an immensely talented statesman, and I am 100 percent behind him".
Books[edit]
Her book, You Are Not Alone: Words of Experience and Hope for the Journey Through Depression (1993) (with Larry Rothstein) (ISBN 0-06-096977-6 Search this book on 
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A Change of Heart: Words of Experience and Hope for the Journey Through Divorce (1996) (ISBN 0-06-095105-2 Search this book on .).
Death[edit]
She was being treated for transitional-cell carcinoma, a form of cancer, when Thorne died of bladder cancer in Concord, Massachusetts.
Ancestry[edit]
Julia Thorne was a direct eleventh generation descendant of John Bowne, a defiant activist in the struggle for religious freedom. William Thorne Sr., third signatory of the Flushing Remonstrance is also an ancestor. Thorne was also a distant cousin of John Kerry through their common ancestor Elizabeth Fones.
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Julia Thorne, 61; Author Was Former Wife of John Kerry". The Los Angeles Times. 29 April 2006. Retrieved 21 October 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Doten, Patti (8 March 1994). "Defying Depression". The Boston Globe. p. 51. Retrieved 21 October 2019 – via Newspapers.com. "Defying Depression". The Boston Globe. 8 March 1994. p. 55. Retrieved 21 October 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ "Madame Ex". Archived from the original on November 23, 2005. Retrieved 2006-04-29. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help); The Washingtonian; July 1996 - ↑ Landers, Ann (5 December 1993). "New Book Deals With Illness 21 Million Suffer". The Press-Tribune. Retrieved 21 October 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
External links[edit]
- Julia Stimson Thorne's Family Tree
- Another Thorne Family Tree, with navigable links through the generations
- Senator's divorce records available – Boston Globe article revealing that John Kerry and Julia Stimson Thorne's divorce papers are public
- Julia Thorne, author and ex-wife of Sen. Kerry, dead at 61 – Boston Globe obituary
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