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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.
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 · Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd fue amante y amiga de Roosevelt por muchas décadas. Y también secretaria de su esposa Eleanor. De todos estos detalles se enteró Eleanor por boca de Laura Delano,...
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.
12 de abr. de 2022 · Discretamente Lucy fue retirada del complejo antes de la llegada de Eleanor. No hubo escandalo ni recriminaciones y días más tarde, la primera dama recibió amablemente las condolencias de la Sra. Rutherfurd, quien moriría tres años más tarde de leucemia, antes de cumplir 57 años.
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...
