Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Feb 12, 1884 - Feb 20, 1980

Alice Lee Roosevelt Longworth was an American writer and prominent socialite. She was the eldest child of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt and the only child he had with his first wife, Alice Hathaway Lee.
Longworth led an unconventional and controversial life. Her marriage to Representative Nicholas Longworth III, a Republican party leader and 38th Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, was shaky, and her only child, Paulina, was from her affair with Senator William Edgar Borah.
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“My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding and the baby at every christening.”

Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Feb 12, 1884 - Feb 20, 1980
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