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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.
31 de mar. de 2024 · Learn how Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd, a former social secretary, became Franklin Roosevelt's secret lover and remained close to his heart until his death. Discover how she rekindled their affair after his polio and how she arranged a final rendezvous with him in 1945.
20 de abr. de 2008 · 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.
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.
12 de abr. de 2022 · El presidente estadounidense Franklin D. Roosevelt falleció en 1945 rodeado de su amante Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd, con quien había mantenido un romance desde su juventud. La primera dama Eleanor Roosevelt sabía de la infidelidad de su marido y la toleraba por respeto a su carrera política.
17 de dic. de 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...
12 de abr. de 2018 · The article recounts the last hours of Franklin D. Roosevelt, who died of a cerebral hemorrhage in 1945, and his long-standing affair with his mistress, Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd. It also discusses the controversy over his health and mental state in his last months of office.
