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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 · 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.
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...
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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 · 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.
