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Lucy Page Mercer was born on April 26, 1891, in Washington, D.C., to Carroll Mercer, a member of Theodore Roosevelt's "Rough Riders" cavalry military unit in the campaigns in Cuba, on the south shore of the island near Santiago during the brief Spanish–American War in 1898, and Minna Leigh (Minnie) Tunis, an independent woman of "Bohemian" exotic, free-spirited tastes. [1]
Marguerite Alice "Missy" LeHand (September 13, 1896 – July 31, 1944) was a private secretary to U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) for 21 years. According to LeHand's biographer Kathryn Smith in The Gatekeeper, she eventually functioned as White House Chief of Staff, the only woman in American history to do so.
Winthrop Chanler Rutherfurd (February 4, 1862 – March 19, 1944) was an American socialite from New York, best known for his romance with Consuelo Vanderbilt and his marriage to Lucy Mercer, mistress to American President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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Margaret Lynch Suckley / ˈ s ʊ k l iː / (December 20, 1891 – June 29, 1991) was a sixth cousin, intimate friend, and confidante of US President Franklin D. Roosevelt, as well as an archivist for the first American presidential library. [1]
On the advice of Roosevelt's secretary, Malvina Thompson, Hickok then sought work in New York with public relations man and politician Grover Whalen. Shortly after Franklin Roosevelt's 1936 re-election, Hickok was hired by Whalen to do publicity for the 1939 New York World's Fair. Opportunities for female employees of the Fair were limited, and ...
Franklin D. Roosevelt and Eleanor, his fifth cousin once removed, were married on St. Patrick's Day in 1905. A year after their wedding, former President Theodore Roosevelt, Eleanor's uncle, wrote ...
Lost in time, archeologists excavated a special space at Jefferson's Monticello mansion that astounded even the most experienced social scientists: The living quarters of Sally Hemings, the ...