Profile
Lorena Hickok
Journalist + Writer
Female
Born
Mar 7, 1893
Died
May 1, 1968
Lorena Alice Hickok was an American journalist and confidante of Eleanor Roosevelt. Her relationship with Roosevelt has been the subject of research.
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Timeline
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CHILDHOOD
1893
Birth
Born in 1893.
THIRTIES
After working for "The Mirror" for about a year, Hickok landed a job with the Associated Press in 1928, where she became one of the wire service's most valued correspondents.
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1932
39 Years Old
In 1932, she convinced her editors to allow her to cover Eleanor Roosevelt during the presidential campaign and for the four month interregnum period.
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FORTIES
1933
40 Years Old
Because she felt she could no longer be objective in covering the Roosevelts, Hickok left the Associated Press in 1933.
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During her time with FERA, Hickok developed a dislike of reporters. In one report to Hopkins in 1934, she wrote, “Believe me, the next state administrator who lets out any publicity on me is going to get his head cracked ” Hickok had also vented to Hopkins's secretary, Kathryn Godwin, about how she was “fed-up with publicity”.
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1940
47 Years Old
Hickok became the executive secretary of the Women's Division of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) in 1940, and from early January, 1941 until shortly after FDR's fourth inauguration in 1945, she lived at the White House.
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FIFTIES
1945
52 Years Old
When Hickok's diabetes worsened in 1945, she was forced to leave her position with the DNC.
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LATE ADULTHOOD
1954
61 Years Old
Hickok wrote several books, co-authoring "Ladies of Courage" with Eleanor Roosevelt in 1954, and following that with "The Story of Franklin D. Roosevelt," (1956), "The Story of Hellen Keller" (1958), "The Story of Eleanor Roosevelt" (1959), and several more.
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1968
75 Years Old
She lived in a cottage on the Roosevelt estate, where she died in 1968.
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