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Lucy Page Mercer Rutherfurd was born April 26, 1891, in Washington, D.C. to a prominent Maryland Catholic family. She was educated in private schools, but because her family had very little money she had to go to work. In 1914, she became social secretary to Eleanor Roosevelt. In that capacity, she helped ER with the social obligations ...
12 de abr. de 2018 · In the end, FDR’s health — once threatened so severely by his bout of poliomyelitis in 1921 and the resultant paralysis of his lower body — finally gave out after years of carrying the ...
Lucy Mercer. Bettmann / CORBIS. Hired as a secretary by Eleanor Roosevelt, Mercer ended up having an affair with Roosevelt's husband. Eleanor discovered love letters between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Mercer in 1918, when the presidency was just a distant ambition for her husband. Fearing for his political life, Franklin convinced Eleanor to ...
2 de mar. de 2011 · Lucy became governess for the children of Winthrop Rutherfurd, a wealthy widower whom she married in 1920. Franklin and Lucy maintained some limited contact by letter during the 1920s and 1930s, and following Winthrop Rutherfurd’s death in 1944, Franklin and Lucy began to see each other in person. Lucy was at Warm Springs on April 12, 1945 ...
Lucy Page Mercer Rutherfurd (April 26, 1891 – July 31, 1948) was an American woman who was best known for her affair with future US president Franklin D. Roosevelt. Lucy Page Mercer was born on April 26, 1891, in Washington, D.C., to Carroll Mercer (1857–1917), a member of Theodore Roosevelt's "Rough Riders" cavalry military unit in the campaigns in Cuba, on the south shore of the island ...
1 de mar. de 1998 · Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd was one of many women in FDR's life. He enjoyed and trusted women. His mother gave him unimpeachable love and support. Throughout his presidency, he developed close ...
20 de jul. de 2018 · In Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd: Eleanor's Rival, FDR's Other Love, Totten presents a carefully structured case for a deep and lasting but chaste love between Lucy and FDR, against the prevailing view that they were clandestine lovers.
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