Marguerite LeHand

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Marguerite "Missy" LeHand (13 September 1898 - 31 July 1944) was private secretary to former U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt for many years. She was rumoured to have had an affair with Roosevelt who rewrote his will to leave half of his estate for Missy, effectively cutting his children out.

Born in Potsdam, New York, she attended secretarial school after graduating from high school. She became a secretary at the Democratic Party's national headquarters and eventually became President Roosevelt's secretary in 1920. She lived and worked with him from when he was in New York to when he was in the White House.

LeHand suffered a stroke during Roosevelt's third term and never fully recovered. Grace Tully took over as Roosevelt's secretary.