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Lillian Rogers Parks net worth is $13 Million
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Lillian Rogers Parks (February 1, 1897 – November 6, 1997) was an American housemaid 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 50-year period in the life of domestic staff in the White House. It reports Parks's experiences as a seamstress, and those of her mother, 'Maggie' Rogers, who served as a housemaid for thirty years. Many of the gifts she received (revealed in the aforementioned book) from presidents during her time there later became notable artifacts and collectibles associated with presidential history, eventually ending up in the Raleigh DeGeer Amyx Collection. She also published The Roosevelts: a family in turmoil in 1981 in collaboration with Frances Spatz Leighton.
Net Worth
$13 Million
Date Of Birth
February 1, 1897
Died
1997-11-06
Height
5' (1.52 m)
Profession
Writer
Nicknames
Lillian Rogers Parks, Parks, Lillian Rogers
Star Sign
Aquarius
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Fact
1
Biography in: "American National Biography". Supplement 1, pp. 471-472. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
2
Younger brother Emmett served in and was gassed during World War I, thereafter living in Arizona for his health.
3
Her mother was Staff member (chief maid) Margaret 'Maggie' Rogers who served for 30 years (1909-1939), during the administrations of Taft, Wilson, Harding, Coolidge, Hoover, and part of Franklin D. Roosevelt's. Lillian Rogers Parks worked as a seamstress from 1931-1961, during the administrations of Coolidge, Hoover, Roosevelt, Truman, and Eisenhower. She was married briefly to Wheatley Parks. She had polio as a child and walked with crutches into adulthood which perhaps gave her and Franklin D. Roosevelt a special bond. She collaborated on the book 'My Thirty Years Backstairs at the White House' with Frances Spatz Leighton, chronicling her years working at the White House and going back to childhood recollections of being in the White House when her mother started working there.
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Backstairs at the White House
1979
TV Mini-Series book "My Thirty Years Backstairs at the White House" - 4 episodes
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Inside the White House
1995
TV Movie documentary
Herself - White House Seamstress 1929-1960
Archive Footage
Known for movies
Backstairs at the White House 1979 as Writer
Inside the White House 1995 as Herself - White House Seamstress 1929-1960