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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.
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...
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...
Totten's research into the personal memories of the Rutherfurd family and the public holdings of the FDR Library establishes a new rich understanding of Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd--her early life, her education, and her role in the social and political scene in Washington.
> Many recalled the secret visit that F.D.R. paid Lucy Rutherfurd at her 1,500-acre estate in Allamuchy, N.J., in September 1944, six months after the death of her husband. Detouring on a trip...
Apr 12, 2018 · Only an hour before his demise, Lucy Rutherfurd and Elizabeth Shoumatoff hurriedly left the Little White House and drove their way to Aiken, South Carolina. Franklin Roosevelt, the nation’s...
