Lorena Hickock's Short Biography

Who Was Lorena Hickok?

Lorena Hickok was born on March 7, 1893 in Wisconsin. Her mother was a dressmaker and her father was a butter maker. Her cousin helped Lorena to finish high school after her mother died when she was 14. After she failed college, Lorena went into Journalism and worked for Minneapolis Tribune and the Associated Press as a reporter. This job jot her famous, so by 1932, she because the nation's best female reporter. She was assigned to cover Roosevelt ans Hickok struck up a close relationship with the soon-to-be First Lady. As this went on many people thought that Hickok was having a close relationship with Eleanor Roosevelt. Later that year, Hickok was compromised as a reporter, so she left the AP and began work as the chief investigator for the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA). Following complications with her diabetes, Hickok resigned from FERA in 1936 and worked for three years promoting the 1939 New York World's Fair. From 1940 to 1945, she served as the executive secretary of the Women's Division of the Democratic National Committee, living at the White House for most of this time. In 1947, Lorena began working for the New York State Democratic Committee. Then her health began to decline, so she resigned everything and moved to Hyde Park. Hickok died in 1968 on the Roosevelt Estate.