Margaret Rogers (1874-1953) was a housemaid at the White House who served for 30 years (1909-1939), during the administrations of Presidents Taft, Wilson, Harding, Coolidge, Hoover, and part of Franklin D. Roosevelt's, eventually rising to head housemaid.
Her years of service were memorialized in the book My Thirty Years Backstairs at the White House by her daughter, Lillian Rogers Parks, who worked as a seamstress, also in the White House. The story was later produced in 1979 as the miniseries Backstairs at the White House by Ed Friendly Productions. The role of Maggie Rogers was played by actress Olivia Cole.
Emmett Rogers, Jr., Margaret's son, was a U.S. serviceman who was gassed in World War I and had to retire to Arizona for his health.
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See also
- Eugene Allen
External links
- Lillian Parks Knows How To Keep A Secret (People.com)
- Maggie Rogers: First Maid of the White House, 1909 - 1939 (photo)
- Maggie Rogers' Handwritten Notes (The White House Historical Society)
- A White House Maid Remembers a Moment of Panic (The White House Historical Society)
- Margaret D. "Maggie" Williams Rogers obituary
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