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Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd
Lucy Page Mercer Rutherfurd (April 26, 1891 – July 31, 1948) was an American woman best known for her affair with US President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Lucy Mercer was born to wealthy parents who lost most of their fortune and separated in the years following her birth. Mercer then worked briefly in a dress store before taking a position as the social secretary of Eleanor Roosevelt, Franklin's wife, in 1914. Mercer and Franklin are believed to have begun an affair in mid-1916, which was discovered by Eleanor in September 1918. Though Eleanor offered Franklin a divorce and Franklin considered accepting, political, financial, and familial pressures caused him to remain in the marriage. Franklin terminated the affair and promised not to see Mercer again.
Mercer soon married wealthy socialite Winthrop Rutherfurd, a widower in his fifties, but despite her marriage and Franklin's promise, the two remained in surreptitious contact in the three decades that followed. Mercer was in Warm Springs, Georgia, at the time of Roosevelt's death in April 1945, but her presence was kept secret from the public and, through the connivance of Franklin's daughter, Anna, from Eleanor as well.〔http://www.gwu.edu/~erpapers/teachinger/glossary/halstead-anna.cfm〕 Lucy died of leukemia on July 31, 1948. Despite rumors, her affair with Roosevelt did not become widespread public knowledge until the publication of Jonathan W. Daniels' 1966 memoir ''The Time Between the Wars''.
==Background==
Born in Washington, D.C., Lucy Page Mercer was the daughter of Carroll Mercer (1857–1917), a member of Theodore Roosevelt's Rough Riders, and Minnie Mercer (1863–1947), an independent woman of Bohemian tastes. Lucy had one sister, Violetta Carroll Mercer (1889–1947). Though they were both from wealthy, well-connected families, Mercer's parents lost their fortune through the Panic of 1893 and their lavish spending. The pair separated shortly after Lucy's birth, and Carroll became an alcoholic. Minnie then raised the girls alone.
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