Maggie Rogers (White House maid)

{{Short description|Housemaid in the White House (1874–1953)}}

Margaret D. Williams Rogers (1874 – July 19, 1953){{cite news |title=Deaths Elsewhere |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/329414737/?terms=Maggie%2BRogers |access-date=January 13, 2020 |work=Tampa Tribune |agency=Associated Press |date=July 23, 1953 |page=2 |url-access=subscription}} was an American housemaid at the White House who served for 30 years (1909–1939), during the administrations of Presidents Taft, Wilson, Harding, Coolidge, Hoover, and part of Franklin D. Roosevelt's, eventually rising to head housemaid."[https://www.whitehousehistory.org/a-white-house-maid-remembers-a-moment-of-panic A White House Maid Remembers a Moment of Panic]". Washington, D.C.: The White House Historical Association, retrieved online August 29, 2018. She began her service on the fourth day of the Taft administration.{{Cite news|title=Insider spent 52 years in the White House|date=15 November 1997|work=Ottawa Citizen}}

Eleanor Roosevelt encouraged Rogers to write a diary about her experiences on the White House staff.{{Cite news|title=She recalls many presidents, but Lillian Parks is no gossip|last=Woods|first=Sherry|date=12 February 1979|work=The Miami News}}  Those experiences were memorialized in the book My Thirty Years Backstairs at the White House written by her daughter, Lillian Rogers Parks, who also worked at the White House as a seamstress.Mitric, Joan McQueeney. "[https://web.archive.org/web/20180831075052/https://www.deseretnews.com/article/405265/WHITE-HOUSE-WORKERS-RECALL-THEIR-SERVICE-WITH-PRIDE.html White House Workers Recall Their Service with Pride]". Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret News, February 19, 1995.Clifford, Garry. "[https://people.com/archive/her-tales-of-white-house-life-head-for-tv-but-lillian-parks-knows-how-to-keep-a-secret-vol-11-no-4/ Her Tales of White House Life Head for TV, but Lillian Parks Knows How to Keep a Secret]". New York, New York: People, January 29, 1979.{{cite news|title=Lillian Parks, 100, Dies; Had 'Backstairs' White House View|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/11/12/us/lillian-parks-100-dies-had-backstairs-white-house-view.html|website=The New York Times|date=12 November 1997|access-date=2 May 2018|last1=Thomas|first1=Robert McG. Jr.}} The story was later produced in 1979 as the NBC miniseries Backstairs at the White House by Ed Friendly Productions.Martin, Bob. “Skipping around the television dial.” Long Beach Independent, 13 July 1977 The role of Maggie Rogers was played by actress Olivia Cole.“Eight Stars Set for NBC’s Series on the White House.” The Los Angeles Times, 6 April 1978Hanauer, Joan.“New mini-series unveils White House family life.” Hutchinson News, 29 January 1979

Emmett Rogers Jr., Margaret's son, was a U.S. serviceman who was gassed in World War I and had to retire to Arizona for his health.