What is Wilson Roosevelt Jerman?
[[File:Wilson Roosevelt Jerman (crop).jpg|right|200px]] '''Wilson Roosevelt Jerman''' (January 21, 1929 – May 16, 2020) was a butler. He worked for 11 different [[American presidents]] in the [[White House]]. He was born in [[Seaboard, North Carolina]]. Jerman was promoted to butler under [[John F. Kennedy]], and continued in that role until his retirement in 1993 during the [[Bill Clinton]] administration. He returned to the White House in 2003 in the [[George W. Bush]] administration. He worked as a [[maitre d']] and elevator operator for [[Barack Obama]] before his final retirement in 2012.<ref>{{cite web|title=Inside the Working White House: Early 21st Century|url=https://www.whitehousehistory.org/the-working-white-house-early-21st-century|publisher=The White House Historical Association|access-date=May 21, 2020}}</ref> Jerman died at the age of 91 on May 16, 2020 from [[COVID-19]] in [[Woodbridge, Virginia]] at the age of 91.<ref>{{cite web|last=Ruane|first=Michael E.|title=Longtime White House butler and friend of presidents dies of covid-19|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/white-house-butler-wilson-jerman/2020/05/21/f599a600-9b7e-11ea-a2b3-5c3f2d1586df_story.html|publisher=The Washington Post|date=May 21, 2020|access-date=May 21, 2020}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Jerman, Wilson Roosevelt}} [[Category:1929 births]] [[Category:2020 deaths]] [[Category:Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Virginia]] [[Category:People from North Carolina]] {{US-bio-stub}}