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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.
Mar 31, 2024 · The widow was Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd, who had been Roosevelt’s lover nearly 30 years earlier. Now she was writing to arrange a secret rendezvous with her old flame. She appeared in Warm Springs a few days later and was sitting with Roosevelt when he suffered a fatal stroke.
Quick Facts. Lucy Page Mercer Rutherfurd was born April 26, 1891, in Washington, DC 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.
Apr 20, 2008 · The White House logs show that someone named “Mrs. Paul Johnson” believed to be a pseudonym for Lucy Rutherfurd as she was then, having married Winthrop Rutherfurd, a wealthy widower...
Dec 17, 2023 · Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd spent the night of April 11, 1945, restless with worry about Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the thirty-second President of the United States, at the Little White House in...
995: Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd. President Franklin D Roosevelt’s Mistress and Longtime Companion. Born: 26 April 1891, Washington DC, United States of America. Died: 31 July 1948, Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America. Lucy was at the president’s side when he suffered a fatal cerebral hemorrhage at his second home in Warm Springs.
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.
Fdr’s sudden death was more of a surprise for Eleanor than it was for Lucy. In denial about the seriousness of his condition, Eleanor was not prepared for tragedy when she arrived as the keynote speaker at a charity event at Washington’s Sulgrave Club on April 12.
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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...
Lucy. A president. A marriage. A love affair. On the eve of World War I, Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin Delano Roosevelt, fiercely ambitious and still untouched by polio, falls in love with his wife's social secretary, Lucy Mercer.
