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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.
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...
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 visited...
Only a few words from the depth of his heart, which were long kept secret, have survived on paper. The president’s unofficial writings were part of his legacy, inherited by his widow at his death in 1945. Eleanor chose her thirty-fouryear-old son Elliott as the publisher of FDR’s personal letters.
May 14, 2024 · 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. Early Life. Lucy Page Mercer Rutherfurd was born on April 26, 1891, in Washington, D.C.
Dec 31, 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...
