Lucy Almond
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"Lucy Almond," White House Workers History Project, White House Historical Association, 2026, https://whha.whirlihost.com/Detail/workers/785.
- Position
- Cook
- Years in President's House
- circa 1929 – 1932
- Legal Status
- Free Person
- Gender
- Female
- Race/Ethnicity
- Black or African American
- Presidency
- Herbert Hoover
- Biography
- In 1929, Lucy Almond was listed on First Lady Lou Hoover’s Christmas gift list as an “occasional cook.”1 She was again listed among White House kitchen staff on their 1931 and 1932 lists.2 Further details about her life are scarce.
- Employees on Duty at the Executive Office, 1929, Lou Henry Hoover Papers, Subject Files, White House Christmas 1929, Herbert Hoover Presidential Library.
- “White House Employees, 1932,” Lou Henry Hoover Papers, Subject Files, White House Christmas 1932, Herbert Hoover Presidential Library; “Xmas List 1931,” Lou Henry Hoover Papers, Subject Files, White House Christmas 1931, Herbert Hoover Presidential Library.
- Birthplace
- Unclear from Context
- Unclear from Context