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Marguerite Alice "Missy" LeHand (September 13, 1898 – July 31, 1944) was private secretary to U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) for 21 years. According to Roosevelt biographer Doris Kearns Goodwin, during FDR's presidency, LeHand became "the most celebrated private secretary in the country". Born into a poor Irish-American family in New York, LeHand attended secretarial school, took a series of clerical jobs, and eventually began to work for the Democratic Party's New York office. There she came to the attention of FDR's wife Eleanor during his 1920 vice presidential candidacy and was hired as FDR's personal secretary. After FDR was partially paralyzed by polio, LeHand became his daily companion, to the extent of adopting his favorite hobbies, games, and drinks. She remained his secretary when he became Governor of New York in 1929 and when he became president in 1933, serving until a 1941 stroke left her unable to speak. She moved to her sister's home in Boston and died in 1944. The exact nature of LeHand's relationship with FDR is debated by historians. It is generally accepted that their relationship contained a romantic element, though scholars remain divided on whether the pair had a sexual relationship. LeHand was engaged to U.S. Ambassador William Bullitt in 1933, but never married, later asking a friend, "How could anyone ever come up to FDR?" == Early life == LeHand was born in Potsdam, New York, to Daniel J. and Mary J. (née Graffin) LeHand, who were the children of Irish immigrants.〔 When Marguerite was young, her father, a gardener with a drinking problem, deserted the family. She had a sister, Anna, and two brothers, Daniel and Bernard. The family later moved to Somerville, Massachusetts. As a child, LeHand was struck by rheumatic fever, and Eleanor Roosevelt later stated that the disease had left her delicate and barred from strenuous exercise. She graduated from Somerville High School in 1917 and then attended secretarial school. Although she never attended college, in 1937 Rosary College recognized her professional achievements with an honorary Doctor of Laws. After holding a variety of clerical positions in the Boston area and passing the Civil Service exam, she moved to Washington, DC to serve as a clerk during the First World War.〔 At the recommendation of Charles McCarthy, Roosevelt's assistant at the Navy Department,〔 she became a secretary with the Democratic Party's New York headquarters. In 1920, when Franklin Roosevelt was running for Vice President on a ticket with James M. Cox against Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge, LeHand's work on the campaign and her clear personal devotion to FDR caught the eye of the Roosevelts.〔Roosevelt, Eleanor, ''The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt,'' pp. 111–12, Da Capo Press, 1992 ISBN 978-0-306-80476-2)〕〔Roosevelt, Elliott, ''An Untold Story: The Roosevelts of Hyde Park'', p. 129, Putnam Sons, 1973 ASIN: B001IOWZ4Q〕 In early 1921, FDR hired her as his personal secretary and gave her the initial job of cleaning up his correspondence. Roosevelt biographer Jean Edward Smith described the young LeHand as "five feet, seven inches tall ... warm and attractive, with ink-blue eyes, black hair already turning gray, and an engaging throaty voice. She was also modest, well mannered, exceptionally capable, and thoroughly organized." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Marguerite LeHand」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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