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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.
4 ott 2016 · But the woman who is perhaps least remembered but most important was Marguerite “Missy” LeHand, his personal secretary and closest confidant for more than 20 years. Missy suffered a terrible stroke in 1941 and left the White House, so her assistant Grace Tully took over for her. When President Roosevelt died, Grace Tully took all of her and ...
23 ott 2016 · A portrait of Marguerite LeHand, known as Missy, the personal secretary to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Bachrach/Getty Images. By Sam Roberts. Oct. 23, 2016. America is poised for the ...
Date of Death: July 31, 1944. Place of Burial: Cambridge, MA. Cemetery Name: Mount Auburn Cemetery. Marguerite “Missy” LeHand, was Franklin D. Roosevelt's personal secretary and confidant for more than twenty years. LeHand was born in Postdam, New York to Daniel and Mary LeHand, both the children of Irish immigrants.
6 set 2016 · The first biography of arguably the most influential member of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s administration, Marguerite “Missy” LeHand, FDR’s de facto chief of staff, who has been misrepresented, mischaracterized, and overlooked throughout history…until now.Widely considered the first female presidential chief of staff, Marguerite “Missy” LeHand was the right-hand woman to Franklin ...
- illustrated, reprint
- Kathryn Smith
- Simon and Schuster, 2016
LEHAND, MARGUERITE (MISSY)Officially, Marguerite "Missy" LeHand (September 13, 1898–July 31, 1944) was Franklin D. Roosevelt's confidential secretary from 1920 until 1941.
8 ott 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.
