THE MISTRESSES OF AMERICAN PRESIDENTS ; DEAREST MADAME by IRMA HUNT

THE MISTRESSES OF AMERICAN PRESIDENTS ;  DEAREST MADAM by IRMA HUNT

from July 25 2009

DEAREST MADAME by Irma Hunt is an old book published in 1978. And though we find defining who is or isn't a mistress or mantress difficult, since all adulterers are not mistresses and not all mistresses are adulterers (and legal marriage isn't the only way to be married), here is the list as presented by Irma Hunt...

Sally Cary Fairfax - George Washington
Sally Hemmings - Thomas Jefferson  (This one is controversial via other sources)
Maria Halpin - Grover Cleveland
Carrie Phillips - Warren G. Harding
Lucy Mercer - Franklin Roosevelt
Kay Summersby - Dwight Eisenhower
Judith Campbell - John F. Kennedy  (In my opinion Campbell was not a mistress.)

I was horrified to read how badly Maria Halpin and Carrie Phillips were treated. Of all of these Lucy Mercer comes closest to being an actual mistress by my way of thinking. Sally Hemmings - Thomas Jefferson could not legally marry her. Kay Summersby had her own job with the army first and had an affair with the married Dwight while his personal driver and assistant but he made no promises to her so I think of it as a wartime romance, and Judith Campbell may have been a party girl who got around, but besides having sex with J.F.K. it doesn't sound like he supported her financially. Only Lucy Mercer sounds to have had an actual long term LOVE AFFAIR with the unhappily but loyally married Roosevelt...

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Missy here:  Looking at this list of possible future subjects I see I did devote posts to some of these personalities that I label POLITICAL MISTRESSES!

November 2012

CARRIE PHILLIPS 

and the United States President Warren Harding Affair 

November  2016

ELIZABETH L. RAY : Mistress of Representative Wayne L. Hays. She said, “I Can’t Type, I Can’t File, I Can’t Even Answer The Phone.”

July 2018

SALLY HEMMINGS; Was She a Willing Mistress to Thomas Jefferson or a Raped Slave?

October 2019

LUCY MERCER RUTHERFURD : FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT'S MISTRESS WHOSE EXISTANCE WRECKED ELEANOR AND ENHANCED HIS LIFE

July 2021

JUDITH KATHERINE IMMOOR  AKA CAMPBELL EXNER : MISTRESS OF PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY : COURIER BETWEEN KENNEDY AND MOBSTER SAM GIANCANA

There's more! Click on the label POLITICAL MISTRESSES