Mrs. Landingham

Dolores Landingham
'The West Wing' character
First appearance	"Pilot"
Last appearance	"Debate Camp" (flashback)
Created by	Aaron Sorkin
Portrayed by	Kathryn Joosten Kirsten Nelson ("Two Cathedrals" flashbacks)
Information
Gender	Female
Occupation	White House Presidential Secretary (Seasons 1-2)
Spouse(s)	Henry Landingham (deceased)
Children	Two sons (deceased)

Dolores Landingham (played by Kathryn Joosten^[1] and known universally as Mrs. Landingham) is a character in the television series The West Wing. Mrs. Landingham appears in the first two seasons of the show as the executive secretary of President of the United States Josiah Bartlet (played by Martin Sheen).

Character biography

Mrs. Landingham appears in the very first episode of The West Wing. She is the personal secretary to President Josiah Bartlet, and to a large extent controls access by the other characters to the President. She is the only White House staffer whom the President nearly always addresses formally; he typically calls her "Mrs. Landingham", although he addresses other, more senior members of his staff, and Mrs. Landingham's eventual replacement, by their first names. In the show, she describes herself as a surrogate big sister to Bartlet.

In the second season 21st episode "18th and Potomac", Mrs. Landingham is killed by a drunk driver while driving to the White House to show the President (at his request) a new car she just bought. Her death affects President Bartlet deeply, driving the plot of the second-season finale "Two Cathedrals", in which Bartlet must decide whether to seek re-election in the midst of a scandal over failing to publicly disclose the fact that he has multiple sclerosis. In flashbacks during this episode it is revealed that she first met Bartlet when he was a teenager in his native New Hampshire, where his father served as headmaster of a private school. Mrs. Landingham (played by Kirsten Nelson in the flashback episodes) was at that time Bartlet's father's new secretary. In another flashback in the episode "Bartlet for America", Mrs. Landingham is shown working as Jed Bartlet's secretary during his tenure as Governor and it is possible she worked for him when he was in the United States House of Representatives.

Landingham was married to United States Air Force Major Henry Landingham, who served in the Korean War, though she is a widow by the time she begins work at the White House. It is revealed in "In Excelsis Deo" that her twin sons (Andrew and Simon) were killed in the Vietnam War on Christmas Eve, 1970. The twins' lottery number had come up while in medical school and despite their parents' strong opposition, they decided not to get a deferment, wanting instead to "go where people needed doctors".

References

↑ Bauder, David (June 13, 2001). "Fans Still Mourning Mrs. Landingham". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved March 18, 2016.

The West Wing

Main characters

Recurring characters

Episodes

Season 1	"Pilot" "Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc" "A Proportional Response" "Five Votes Down" "The Crackpots and These Women" "Mr. Willis of Ohio" "The State Dinner" "Enemies" "The Short List" "In Excelsis Deo" "Lord John Marbury" "He Shall, from Time to Time..." "Take out the Trash Day" "Take This Sabbath Day" "Celestial Navigation" "20 Hours in L.A." "The White House Pro-Am" "Six Meetings Before Lunch" "Let Bartlet Be Bartlet" "Mandatory Minimums" "Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics" "What Kind of Day Has It Been"

Season 2	"In the Shadow of Two Gunmen, Part I" "In the Shadow of Two Gunmen, Part II" "The Midterms" "In This White House" "And It's Surely to Their Credit" "The Lame Duck Congress" "The Portland Trip" "Shibboleth" "Galileo" "Noël" "The Leadership Breakfast" "The Drop-In" "Bartlet's Third State of the Union" "The War at Home" "Ellie" "Somebody's Going to Emergency, Somebody's Going to Jail" "The Stackhouse Filibuster" "17 People" "Bad Moon Rising" "The Fall's Gonna Kill You" "18th and Potomac" "Two Cathedrals"

Season 3	"Isaac and Ishmael" "Manchester, Part I" "Manchester, Part II" "Ways and Means" "On the Day Before" "War Crimes" "Gone Quiet" "The Indians in the Lobby" "The Women of Qumar" "Bartlet for America" "H. Con-172" "100,000 Airplanes" "The Two Bartlets" "Night Five" "Hartsfield's Landing" "Dead Irish Writers" "The U.S. Poet Laureate" "Stirred" "Enemies Foreign and Domestic" "The Black Vera Wang" "We Killed Yamamoto" "Posse Comitatus"

Season 4	"20 Hours in America, Part I" "20 Hours in America, Part II" "College Kids" "The Red Mass" "Debate Camp" "Game On" "Election Night" "Process Stories" "Swiss Diplomacy" "Arctic Radar" "Holy Night" "Guns Not Butter" "The Long Goodbye" "Inauguration, Part I" "Inauguration: Over There" "The California 47th" "Red Haven's on Fire" "Privateers" "Angel Maintenance" "Evidence of Things Not Seen" "Life on Mars" "Commencement" "Twenty Five"

Season 5	"7A WF 83429" "The Dogs of War" "Jefferson Lives" "Han" "Constituency of One" "Disaster Relief" "Separation of Powers" "Shutdown" "Abu el Banat" "The Stormy Present" "The Benign Prerogative" "Slow News Day" "The Warfare of Genghis Khan" "An Khe" "Full Disclosure" "Eppur Si Muove" "The Supremes" "Access" "Talking Points" "No Exit" "Gaza" "Memorial Day"

Season 6	"NSF Thurmont" "The Birnam Wood" "Third-Day Story" "Liftoff" "The Hubbert Peak" "The Dover Test" "A Change Is Gonna Come" "In the Room" "Impact Winter" "Faith Based Initiative" "Opposition Research" "365 Days" "King Corn" "The Wake Up Call" "Freedonia" "Drought Conditions" "A Good Day" "La Palabra" "Ninety Miles Away" "In God We Trust" "Things Fall Apart" "2162 Votes"

Season 7	"The Ticket" "The Mommy Problem" "Message of the Week" "Mr. Frost" "Here Today" "The Al Smith Dinner" "The Debate" "Undecideds" "The Wedding" "Running Mates" "Internal Displacement" "Duck and Cover" "The Cold" "Two Weeks Out" "Welcome to Wherever You Are" "Election Day" "Election Day Part II" "Requiem" "Transition" "The Last Hurrah" "Institutional Memory" "Tomorrow"

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Mrs. Landingham

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