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Marguerite LeHand, Personal Secretary to President Franklin Roosevelt, Washington DC, USA, Harris & Ewing, 1938. FACT: Though not as depicted in Atlantic Crossing. Her collapse actually occurred ...
Her name was Marguerite Alice LeHand, but everyone knew her as Missy. Air travel was a new experience for the thirty-five-year-old woman, and though she had taken many other journeys with her boss, New York governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the stakes had never been higher than for this trip. They were flying to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, where Roosevelt had been ...
Marguerite Alice LeHand, nicknamed “Missy” by the Roosevelt children, was the confidential private secretary of Franklin D. Roosevelt from 1920, when FDR campaigned for vice-president, until she became incapacitated by a stroke in June 1941. She was born in Potsdam, New York, on September 13, 1896, and grew up in Somerville, Massachusetts. After graduating high school in 1917, she attended ...
8. Okt. 2008 · MARGUERITE A. “MISSY” LEHAND. Perhaps because Missy LeHand was a woman, started out as a secretary, and suffered the destruction of most of her papers, historians have overlooked or underestimated her importance. From 1921 to 1941, Missy was closer than anyone else to “Effdee,” as she alone called him. She complemented FDR in four ways ...
Knowledge at Wharton Staff. 00:00. 00:00. Author Kathryn Smith talks about Missy LeHand, the woman who ran FDR's White House. American President Franklin Delano Roosevelt is one of the most ...
Marguerite Alice LeHand. (1896–1944) →. sister projects: Wikipedia article, Commons category, Wikidata item. private secretary to U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt for 21 years; known as "Missy" LeHand. Marguerite Alice LeHand.
Marguerite Alice "Missy" LeHand (September 13, 1896 – July 31, 1944) was a private secretary to U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) for 21 years. According to LeHand's biographer Kathryn Smith in The Gatekeeper, she eventually functioned as White House Chief of Staff, the only woman in American history to do so.
