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  1. 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 near Santiago during the brief Spanish–American War in 1898, and Minna Leigh (Minnie) Tunis (1863–1947), an ...

  2. Apr 12, 2018 · What happens next hasn’t always been clear. Despite the ministrations of his doctors, he was declared dead at 3:35 pm. Only an hour before his demise, Lucy Rutherfurd and Elizabeth Shoumatoff...

    • Dr. Howard Markel
  3. 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.

  4. Apr 20, 2008 · By Charles McGrath. April 20, 2008. In his book “Franklin & Lucy: President Roosevelt, Mrs. Rutherfurd and the Other Remarkable Women in His Life,” which comes out next week, Joseph E. Persico ...

  5. Aug 2, 2010 · FDR: The Long Goodbye. Sixty-five years after FDR’s sudden death in Warm Springs, a new book reveals the intrigue and drama aboard his funeral train. Excerpted from FDR’s Funeral Train, by ...

  6. April 26, 1891. Place of Death: Aiken, SC. Date of Death: July 31, 1948. Place of Burial: Tranquility, NJ. Cemetery Name: Tranquility Cemetery. Lucy Page Mercer Rutherfurd was born April 26, 1891, in Washington, DC to a prominent Maryland Catholic family.

  7. Lucy Mercer Rutherford is most well-known for being the mistress of President Franklin Roosevelt. While FDR told his wife Eleanor that he ended the affair in 1918, Lucy Mercer was by his side on the day he died.

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