Personal Life
Hopkins married Ethel Gross in 1913, with whom he had three sons: David, Robert, and Stephen. She divorced him in 1930, shortly before Hopkins became a public figure. In 1931, Hopkins married Barbara Duncan, who died of cancer six years later. After her death, he was rumored to be romantically linked with FDR's private secretary Marguerite LeHand. In 1942, Hopkins married Louise Macy, his third and final marriage.
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