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  Lucy Page Mercer Rutherfurd - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mercer was hired by Franklin's wife, Eleanor Roosevelt, as a personal secretary in the winter of 1913.
In February 1920, Mercer was married to Winthrop Rutherfurd, a wealthy South Carolinian.
Mercer was with Franklin Roosevelt when he suffered the cerebral hemorrhage that killed him.
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 Lucy Page Mercer Rutherfurd -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Mercer was hired by Franklin's wife, (Wife of Franklin Roosevelt and a strong advocate of human rights (1884-1962)) Eleanor Roosevelt, as a personal secretary in the winter of 1913.
Unbeknownst to Eleanor, Franklin continued to see Mercer, whenever Roosevelt was in the (The capital of the United States in the District of Columbia and a tourist mecca; George Washington commissioned Charles l'Enfant to lay out the city in 1791) Washington D.C. area.
Mercer was with Franklin when he suffered the (Bleeding from a ruptured blood vessel in the brain) cerebral hemorrhage that killed him.
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 FDR and Lucy
Lucy Mercer was a social secretary for Eleanor Roosevelt during the years Roosevelt served as Assistant Secretary to the Navy.
Lucy became a frequent visitor to the plantation where Roosevelt was staying.
Lucy also came to Warm Springs to visit him in November of 1944 and again in the spring of 1945, bringing a friend with her to do his portrait.
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 Encyclopedia: Lucy Mercer
Mercer was hired by Franklin's wife, Eleanor Roosevelt Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (October 11, 1884 - November 7, 1962) was an American human rights activist, diplomat and as the wife of U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the longest acting First Lady.
1920, Mercer was married to Winthrop Rutherfurd, a wealthy South Carolinian.
Mercer was with Franklin when he suffered the A cerebral hemorrhage is a condition in the brain in which a blood vessel leaks.
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 Lucy Locket - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Lucy Locket   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
The tune for Lucy Locket was later used as the basis for Yankee Doodle.
Lucy Locket was a barmaid at the Cock, in Fleet Street, London, sometime in the 1700s.
Lucy discarded one of her lovers (her 'pocket') when she had run through all his money.
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 Washingtonpost.com Special Report: Clinton Accused   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Mercer's reaction is unknown, and the records of it conflict.
Either he was driven to Mercer because his wife was so little fun, or Eleanor was driven to activism because she was "a woman of sorrow," heartbroken by her husband's devotion to another woman -- a woman she had brought into her home as an employee.
Whatever the reason, the record is as clear as it can be: FDR loved Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd when he was still a young man, and he continued to value her company and cared for her in the final years of his life.
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 LaceyLucy
*Lucy Page Mercer was born on April 26th, 1891 in Washington, D.C. She married Winthrop Rutherfurd, whom was a widower with 6 children.
*Lucy Mercer was connected to the New Deal because she was Eleanor Roosevelt's (the first lady at the time) secretary.
*Lucy Page Mercer-Rutherfurd is important in history because of the secrets she had with a famous president, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
newdeal.sps.lane.edu /6th%20period/LaceyLucy.htm   (311 words)

  
 Who was Lucy Mercer?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
A. Lucy Page Mercer, daughter of a well -connected but impoverished Washington family, was engaged as Eleanor Roosevelt's social secretary in 1914 to assist with social responsibilities of the wife of the Assistant Secretary of the Navy.
In 1920, Lucy Mercer married Winthrop Rutherfurd, a wealthy widower.
Lucy was present at the Little White House, Warm Springs, Georgia, when President Roosevelt died in 1945.
www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu /lucyme12.html   (120 words)

  
 meaganlucymercer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Lucy Mercer was a social secretary for Eleanor Rosevelt in the 1930's.
FDR and Mercer had a love affair that went on and off for the next few years, Mercer was aid to be the last person to be with him before his death.
Lucy beleived and loved the views of Eleanor Roosevelt, but was not a very likable person to many of the others who admired Eleanor partly becuase Lucy had an affair with her husband.
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 Lucy Page Mercer Rutherfurd   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Lucy Page Mercer Rutherfurd was born April 26, 1891, in Washington, D.C. to a prominent Maryland Catholic family.
Lucy married Winthrop Rutherfurd, a wealthy widower with six children in 1920.
She was also disturbed to learn that Lucy had been among those who were with FDR when he died in Warm Springs, Georgia, in 1945.
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 Franklin D. Roosevelt Online Research :: Information about Franklin D. Roosevelt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
One of these was Eleanor's social secretary Lucy Mercer, with whom Roosevelt began an affair soon after she was hired in early 1914.
Among the guests was Lucy Page Mercer Rutherfurd, his lover from 30 years previously (by then Mrs.
On the morning of April 12 he was sitting in a leather chair signing letters, his legs propped up on a stool, while Shoumatoff worked at her easel.
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 Lucy
Franklin and Lucy did finally meet, across the divide of his illness and political ascendancy, her marriage and widowhood.
As he prepared to run for an unprecedented third term and lead America into war, Franklin turned to Lucy for the warmth and unconditional approval Eleanor was unable to give.
Lucy comes across as a sensitive and caring woman willing to make any sacrifice for the man she loves, a man who returns her love, and realizes in the end that had Franklin left his wife for her the scandal would have ruined him, and history as we know it would be another story.
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 The Return of the Corn God, Robert Wernick
It is difficult for any one who was not alive at the time to appreciate the shock that was created by what would today be regarded as a rather humdrum revelation, now that presidents have become celebrities like any one else and their every libidinous twitch has become a matter of public record.
Clinton's rompings called all the anchormen back to Washington and pushed the Pope off the front pages, many of these old stories were dug up by journalists out of the historical footnotes in which they lay buried.
Pegler's revelation in 1945 about Roosevelt and Lucy Mercer did not unleash the torrent of lurid exposés that might have been expected in decadent Europe.
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 Working Dogs Book Store - FDR and Lucy: Lovers and Friends (Resa Willis)
There is a decent amount of information about the geneology of some of the characters, but other than showing the Mercer and FDR lived in a relatively close circle of friends and relatives, its old hat.
I was expecting a thorough examination of the love affair between FDR and Lucy Mercer.
FDR's daughter, Anna, was the one who invited Lucy to the Executive Mansion while Eleanor was away on one of many tours during the war.
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 Welcome to Page One - Your Independent Internet Bookstore
A Disappointing Early Encounter- Their Lives Down the Years-The Coming of World War II In the opening hours of a mission to wartime Europe in July 1918, Franklin Roosevelt, then thirty-six and working for the Navy Department, looked over a typewritten "Memorandum For Assistant Secretary" to discover what was in store for him in London.
Roosevelt, the cousin of a president, came from the Hudson Valley, Groton School, Harvard College, and Columbia Law School; Churchill, the grandson of a duke, from Blenheim, Harrow, and Sandhurst.
In a sign of how small the elite Anglo-American world in which they moved was, one of the wives of Winston's cousin the duke of Marlborough was romanced by Winthrop Rutherfurd, the husband of Franklin's illicit love, Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd.
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 Descendants of George Mason: Tenth Generation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Lucy died July 31, 1948 in Memorial Hospital, New York, N.Y., at 57 years of age.
She married Winthrop Rutherfurd in Washington, D.C., February 12, 1920.
Lucy Page Mercer and Winthrop Rutherfurd had the following child:
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 FDR and Lucy: Lovers and Friends - Interactive Reviews
Willis quotes children and friends of FDR and Lucy Mercer however as another reviewer said - there is nothing new.
There is a decent amount of information about the geneology of some of the characters, however other than showing the Mercer and FDR lived in a relatively close circle of friends and relatives, its old hat.
FDR's daughter, Anna, was the 1 who invited Lucy to the Executive Mansion while Eleanor was away on 1 of many tours during the war.
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 Amazon.com: Books: FDR and Lucy: Lovers and Friends   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Franklin promised Eleanor that he would drop Lucy, but through the years he repeatedly saw his girlfriend on the sly, even after polio struck, and she married Winthrop Rutherfurd, a wealthy widower with six children.
The last face FDR saw before he died was that of Lucy Mercer Rutherford, his mistress of thirty-one years.
Roosevelt fell in love with Lucy in 1914 and for the next three decades she provided him comfort from the pressures of his job and the critical eyes of his mother and wife.
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 Mercer Family Genealogy Forum (All Messages)
Re: Susannah Mercer Vick - Anthony Mercer 4/22/05
Re: Mercer in MO - Marilyn Orr 9/02/01
Re: Shadrack Mercer - 1740 - Anthony Mercer 7/07/01
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 Amazon.ca: Books: The Eleanor Roosevelt Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Most are signed and conclude with a selected bibliography that is generally a mix of primary and secondary source materials.
The entries are preceded by a chronology and two pages of well-known Roosevelt quotations.
One photograph showing Roosevelt on a trail ride in Yosemite National Park seems misplaced in the entry on her religious beliefs.
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 [CTRL] FDR Scandal Page
-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.clinton.net/~mewilley/fdr.html FDR and the New Deal ----- FDR SCANDAL PAGE ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The greatest enemy of truth is very often not the lie - deliberate, contrived and dishonest - but the myth - persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
I'm perfectly willing to mislead and tell untruths...FDR, May 1941 (Morgan p 550) Karl Marx is going to win this war.-- Father Coughlin ADULTERY FDR and Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd: Lucy was Eleanor's social secretary in the period before 1918.
Lucy was dismissed but came back during FDR's later years.
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 Mercer Family Genealogy Forum (Page 2)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Re: Mercer - Franklin - Tara Benitez 6/15/04
Re: Mercer - Franklin - Marlin Parker 6/15/04
Re: mahlon mercer born abt 1812 - Linda Zinger 8/12/05
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 Tim Steele: The Affairs of State, Chapter Six
It was a picture of the president and Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd.
She was sitting on his lap facing him, her legs spread on either side.
But it won't be front page news for long, and you'll get crushed.
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 Franklin and Winston, by Jon Meacham - A Large Print Review's Book Review
Throughout, this text is brimming with direct quotes from these interviews, along with excerpts from letters that FDR and Churchill wrote to each other.
Rutherfurd that began around 1914, when Lucy was Eleanor Roosevelt's social secretary.)
Franklin and Winston is an important work that should be read by anyone seeking insights in the historical significance of FDR and Churchill's friendship.
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 St. Angela Academy in Aiken SC - Berrie Road School
On this page is an article from the Aiken Standard, some photos from March 1999 of the place where the school building once existed, and some detail and photos of Ridgeley Hall.
The historic Ridgeley Hall, built by Aiken winter colony resident Winthrop Rutherfurd in 1928, became a convent for the nuns.
Listed now on the National Historic Register, Ridgeley Hall was designed by architect Julian Peabody and built around 1928 by Winthrop and Lucy Mercer Rutherford, who owned the property until 1944.
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 Hot News
The home of the Rutherfurds, relations of the Stuyvesants, served as a nursing home for retired nuns.
New owners plan to demolish two non-contributing wings and keep the Rutherfurd Mansion as the administration building for a senior citizens housing complex.
Its most prominent guest was President Franklin Delano Roosevelt who visited Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd, the woman who in later accounts was described as his mistress.
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 Index of Books on American History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Delivering a narrative punch on every page, The Brother is the story of a family.
It is the story of the trial that turned a nation upside down and that even now divides the American left.
We meet them in this book, whose pages give voice to the standards they set by their strength of character, informed by their experience during World War II.
www.discoveramericanhistory.com /americanhistory/americanhistory10/americanhistory106.html   (5709 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Books: Lucy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Told from Rutherford's viewpoint, the story traces their affair from when she is initially hired as Eleanor's personal secretary in the days before World War I and ends on Rutherford's deathbed in 1948.
I have always been intrigued with the story of the romanance between FDR and Lucy Mercer.
When I ran across this book at a local book store I bought it immediately and moved it ahead of other things that I planned to read.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0393051536/medfools01-20   (969 words)

  
 Vol. 97, pg 93, Ohio History
text of 774 pages), concluding with a brief chapter on the Newport homosex-
Oddly enough, Morgan chooses not to reintroduce Lucy Mercer
Rutherfurd to FDR's life until 1944, although others, including Lash in his
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