Margaret 'Maggie' Rogers (1874–1953) was a maid at the White House

White House

The White House is the official residence and principal workplace of the president of the United States. Located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C., the house was designed by Irish-born James Hoban, and built between 1792 and 1800 of white-painted Aquia sandstone in the Neoclassical...

 who served for 30 years (1909–1939), during the administrations of Taft

William Howard Taft

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, Wilson

Woodrow Wilson

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, Harding

Warren G. Harding

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, Coolidge

Calvin Coolidge

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, Hoover

Herbert Hoover

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, and part of Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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's, eventually rising to head housemaid.

Her years of service were memorialized in the book My Thirty Years Backstairs at the White House

My Thirty Years Backstairs at the White House

My Thirty Years Backstairs at the White House is an autobiographical novel by Lillian Rogers Parks . The memoir was based on Parks' recollections of thirty years as a seamstress in the White House and on childhood memories of her mother's 30...

by her daughter, Lillian Rogers Parks

Lillian Rogers Parks

Lillian Rogers Parks was an American maid and seamstress in the White House.With the journalist Frances Spatz Leighton, co-author of a number of White House memoirs, Parks published My Thirty Years Backstairs at the White House. The book covers a 60-year period in the life of domestic staff in the...

, who worked as a seamstress, also in the White House. The story was later produced as a miniseries

Backstairs at the White House (miniseries)

Backstairs at the White House is a 1979 NBC television miniseries based on the book My Thirty Years Backstairs at the White House by Lillian Rogers Parks...

 by Ed Friendly Productions.

Emmett Rogers, Jr., Margaret’s son, was a U.S. serviceman who was gassed in World War I

World War I

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 and had to retire to Arizona

Arizona

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 for his health.

See also

• Eugene Allen
  Eugene Allen
  Eugene Allen worked for the White House for 34 years until he retired as the head butler in 1986. He started in the White House in 1952 as a "pantry man" and over the years rose in his position until finally attaining the most prestigious rank of butlers serving in the White House, Maître d'.He...