Lucy Mercer
American paramour
Also known as: Lucy Rutherford
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relationship with Roosevelt
- In Eleanor Roosevelt
…affair with her social secretary, Lucy Mercer. It was one of the most traumatic events in her life, as she later told Joseph Lash, her friend and biographer. Mindful of his political career and fearing the loss of his mother’s financial support, Franklin Roosevelt refused his wife’s offer of a…
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