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Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd (née Lucy Page Mercer; April 26, 1891 – July 31, 1948) was an American woman who sustained a long affair with US president Franklin D. Roosevelt.
They met in Washington in 1913, when Eleanor Roosevelt hired Lucy Mercer as a part-time social secretary. At the time, FDR was assistant secretary of the Navy, a handsome, athletic 31-year-old man who frequently played 18 holes of golf before work.
In 1913, on the advice of Anna Roosevelt Cowles, a family elder known as Aunty Bye, Eleanor Roosevelt hired Lucy Mercer, seven years younger, to be her social secretary.
The romance between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Lucy Mercer continued to be the talk of Washington. Since Jonathan Daniels revealed the 30-year romance of the President and his wife's onetime...
And then there were the failures that loosened both the marital and family ties: FDR's affair with Lucy Mercer; Eleanor's rather strained style of parenting the couple's six children.
But in 1916, FDR began an affair with Lucy Mercer, a beautiful, younger woman whom Eleanor had recently hired as her social secretary. When Eleanor discovered proof of the relationship in 1918, she and Franklin nearly divorced; only the efforts of FDR's mother Sara and his political adviser Louis Howe convinced them to stay together.
relationship with Roosevelt. In Eleanor Roosevelt. …affair with her social secretary, Lucy Mercer. It was one of the most traumatic events in her life, as she later told Joseph Lash, her friend and biographer.
Franklin’s Affair and Eleanor’s Views of Human Nature. Eleanor’s discovery in 1918 of Franklin’s affair with her social secretary, Lucy Mercer, was a pivotal moment in Eleanor’s understanding of human nature.
While working for Eleanor, Lucy met Franklin and the two began a romantic relationship. Eleanor learned of the affair in 1918 when she found a package of Lucy's letters in FDR's luggage.
While working for ER, Lucy met Franklin Roosevelt and the two began a romatic relationship. Eleanor learned of the affair in 1918 when she found a package of Lucy's letters in FDR's luggage.