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[[File:Amelia Earhart and husband George Putnam 1931.jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|left|Earhart and Putnam in 1931]]

Earhart married her public relations manager [[George P. Putnam]] on February 7, 1931, in Putnam's mother's house in [[Noank, Connecticut]], in what has been described as a [[marriage of convenience]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://pioneersofflight.si.edu/content/earhart-and-george-palmer-putnam | title=Earhart and George Palmer Putnam }}</ref> Earhart had been engaged to Samuel Chapman, a chemical engineer from Boston but she broke off the engagement on November 23, 1928.{{sfn|Lovell|1989|pp=130, 138}} Putnam, who was known as GP, was divorced in 1929 and sought out Earhart, proposing to her six times before she agreed to marry him. Earhart referred to her marriage as a "partnership" with "dual control"; in a letter to Putnam and hand-delivered to him on the day of the wedding, she wrote: <blockquote>

I want you to understand I shall not hold you to any midaevil {{Sic}} code of faithfulness to me nor shall I consider myself bound to you similarly&nbsp;... I may have to keep some place where I can go to be by myself, now and then, for I cannot guarantee to endure at all times the confinement of even an attractive cage.{{sfn|Lovell|1989|pp=165–166}}<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20041107204646/http://ncbuy.com/news/wireless_news.html?qdate=2003-02-25&nav=VIEW&id=0823D7UCP05030225 "Newly Discovered Amelia Earhart Letter Shows Her Wild Side."] ''Wireless Flash News'', February 25, 2003. Retrieved: September 23, 2017.</ref><ref>Patterson-Neubert, Amy. [http://news.uns.purdue.edu/html4ever/030224.Mobley.Earhart.html "Public to get first look at Amelia Earhart's private life."] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060725091511/http://news.uns.purdue.edu/html4ever/030224.Mobley.Earhart.html |date=July 25, 2006 }} ''Purdue News'', 2003. Retrieved: July 2, 2010.</ref></blockquote>