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Margaret Lynch Suckley /ˈsʊkliː/ (December 20, 1891 – June 29, 1991) was a sixth cousin, intimate friend, and confidante of US President Franklin D.
Margaret "Daisy" Suckley was Franklin Delano Roosevelt's distant cousin and Hudson Valley neighbor.

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Closest Companion: The Unknown Story of the Intimate Relationship Between Franklin Roosevelt and Margaret Suckley

August 3, 2015

Margaret Suckley was an odd witness to history, but in the end she saw, preserved and recorded enough for several lifetimes. She was the unmarried representative of an old established family in the Hudson River with tenuous connections to Franklin Roosevelt. She had conventional tastes, interests (gardening, dog breeding, local history), and prejudices. She lived into her 90s and then it was discovered that she had retained a series of letters and diaries that recorded her friendship with FDR.

Margaret was not an outsized personality. In the early days of her relationship with FDR, some people were not even sure who she was. Roosevelt wrote of his fishing trips and foreign travel. Then with the death of his mother and Missy LeHand's incapacitation, she moved to the center of FDR's life. While his relationship with Eleanor was probably always stimulating, Roosevelt needed around him women who would place him at the center of their lives. Such was Margare

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New Book Remembers FDR's Friendship with Distant Cousin and Rumored Love Daisy Suckley: 'A Constant Presence'

While dealing with the Great Depression and fighting a world war, Franklin Delano Roosevelt found comfort and solace in a very different sort of "first friend": his distant cousin Margaret "Daisy" Suckley.

While Suckley was not in the public eye and ignored for years by presidential historians — only coming into clearer focus more recently, after her 1991 death, thanks in part to Hollywood — her role in President Roosevelt's life shouldn't be understated, says Gary Ginsberg.

Ginsberg writes about her and the former president's bond in his new book, First Friends: The Powerful Unsung (And Unelected) People Who Shaped Our Presidents.

As Ginsberg tells PEOPLE, Roosevelt was "emotionally wired for this friendship and he needed it."

"I think what I came to appreciate with FDR is how lonely he was. Even though he's fighting a depression and fighting a world war, and he's a gregarious man on the outside, when the lights turned o

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Margaret "Daisy" Suckley

Introduction

Margaret "Daisy" Suckley, a distant cousin who was also a friend and confidante to Franklin D. Roosevelt, was born in 1891 in Rhinebeck, New York. She gave Roosevelt his famous dog, Fala, and was with him in Warm Springs, Georgia, when he died. Daisy was also one of the first archivists at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library & Museum. She was responsible for managing the Library's large photograph collection, using her intimate knowledge of President Roosevelt's life to identify the people and places in the photos. Daisy lived in Rhinebeck, NY until her death in 1991, six months before her 100th birthday.

The Suckleys of Wilderstein

Margaret “Daisy” Suckley was born December 20, 1891 at her family home, Wilderstein, in Rhinebeck, New York. She was the fifth child and first daughter of her parents, Elizabeth Phillips Montgomery and Robert Bowne Suckley (rhymes with Book-ly). Both parents came from wealthy families. During Daisy’s childhood, her parents’ attempted to continue the lifestyle of a wealthy Hudson Ri