Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Alice Roosevelt Longworth | |
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Roosevelt in 1920s | |
| Born | Alice Lee Roosevelt February 12, 1884 New York City, U.S. |
| Died | February 20, 1980 (aged 96) Washington, D.C., U.S. |
| Burial place | Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C. |
| Spouse | |
| Children | Paulina Longworth Sturm (with William Borah) |
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| Family | Roosevelt family |
Alice Lee Roosevelt Longworth (February 12, 1884 – February 20, 1980) was an American writer and socialite. She was the eldest child of U.S. president Theodore Roosevelt and his only child with his first wife, Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt. Longworth led an unconventional and controversial life. Her marriage to Representative Nicholas Longworth III, a Republican Party leader and the 38th speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, was shaky, and her only child, Paulina, was from her affair with Senator William Borah.
Alice met 16 U.S. Presidents during her life: Grover Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison, William McKinley, her father Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, her cousin Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, and Gerald Ford. She is widely thought to be the person who met the most serving U.S. Presidents in history.