Grace Tully

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Grace Tully
Missy LeHand
Succeeded byRose Conway
Personal details
Born(1900-08-09)August 9, 1900
Bayonne, New Jersey, U.S.
DiedJune 15, 1984(1984-06-15) (aged 83)
Washington, D.C., U.S.
Political partyDemocratic
EducationGrace Institute

Grace Tully (August 9, 1900 – June 15, 1984) was private secretary to U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. She succeeded Missy LeHand in June 1941 and served until FDR's death on April 12, 1945.

Biography

speech he delivered to the U.S. Congress following the attack on Pearl Harbor
, which FDR revised to begin, "a date which will live in infamy".

Grace Tully was born in Bayonne, New Jersey. Her father was a businessman and a loyalist to the Democratic Party. He died when she was young, and Tully and her two sisters and brother were raised by their mother.[1] She received her secretarial education at the Grace Institute in New York, and after graduating was appointed as secretary to Patrick Hayes, bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York.

In 1928, Grace Tully started to work for the Democratic National Committee, and was assigned to assist

Missy LeHand, who was Roosevelt's personal secretary in Roosevelt's office at Albany, New York. Tully was given the dictation and typing duties that Lehand disliked. Tully served with FDR for his four years as governor.[1]

Grace Tully moved to Washington, D.C., in 1933, when Roosevelt was elected president. Both she and Missy LeHand were important figures for FDR during his presidency. Tully frequently accompanied FDR on his trips to Hyde Park and Shangri-La (today called Camp David).

When

FDR Foundation. In 1949 she published her memoirs, FDR: My Boss. In 1955 she joined the staff of the Senate Democratic Policy Committee, working with Lyndon B. Johnson, the Senate Majority Leader at the time. She retired ten years later and died in 1984.[1]

Bibliography

  • Grace Tully, FDR: My Boss (1949)

References

  1. ^ a b c Grace Tully Biographical Timeline, the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum
  2. ISBN 978-1-4000-6121-1

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External links

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