Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt

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Written By Heather Rogers, presidential doodler

FIRST WIFE OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT // #26

  • She’s the original Alice Roosevelt, but I’ve tagged everything about her daughter as Alice Roosevelt (instead of Alice Roosevelt Longworth) and so now I have a big mess on my hands. Most of the posts linked to with the more button will be about her daughter instead. Whatareyagonnado? I have some cleaning up to do.

  • Engaged on Valentine’s Day.

  • Died two days after giving birth to Alice Roosevelt.

  • Read a book that claimed that Edith Roosevelt (Theodore’s second wife) claimed that if Alice hadn’t died, Roosevelt would have been driven to suicide by sheer boredom. I had some gripes about that book to begin with, but I recently heard from an author also thinks that’s baloney. I have some more reading to do.

Heather Rogers, presidential doodler

I’ve read at least one book about every U.S. president, never tire of shoehorning presidential trivia into conversations, and am basically an expert at hiding mistakes in my sketchbooks.

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