Suye Narita Gambino

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Written By Heather Rogers, America's Preeminent Presidential Doodler

  • Adopted daughter of Civil War vet Captain Oliver Clarke and his wife

  • After her parents died, she became the caretaker of Gant’s Cottage

  • During WWI, she was held prisoner on Mt. McGregor, stripped of her radio and held as an “enemy alien” after the bombing of Pearl Harbor

  • She wanted to become a U.S. citizen for a long time; it took 15 years for her to finally gain citizenship

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Heather Rogers, America's Preeminent 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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