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Battery D Dinner celebrating the election of President Roosevelt and Vice President-elect Truman

58-141 (untitled)
Accession Number
58-141
8x10 inches (21x26 cm)
Black & White
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Keywords
Dinners and dining
Friends and associates
Legislators
HST Keywords
Truman - Banquets - Dinners - Pre-Presidency; Battery D; Truman - Senator - 2nd Term; Hotels - President; Hotels - President
People Pictured
Chaney, Verne E., 1895-1973
Donnelly, Eugene
Evans, M. R., d. 1976
Higinbotham, John J., 1898-1957
Jacobson, Edward, 1891-1955
Leigh, Vere C., 1896-1985
McKim, Edward D., 1895-1969
Meisburger, Edward P., 1895-1979
Menefee, Walter B., 1893-1972
Murphy, Thomas E., 1894-1970
Paterson, Newell T., 1890-1977
Ridge, Albert A. (Albert Alphonso), 1898-1967
Schmidt, Fred J., 1896-1954
Spina, Frank E., 1887-1972
Thacher, John H., 1872-1960
Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972
Vaughan, Harry H., 1893-1981
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Credit:
Foto Service, Kansas City, MO

Harry S. Truman Library & Museum.

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Description
Battery D Dinner celebrating the election of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Vice President-elect Harry S. Truman. At table, left to right: James B. Conway, Newell T. Paterson, Morris Glen Riley, Frank Stanley, Edward D. McKim, Harry S. Truman, Eugene P. Donnelly, John H. Thacher, Col. Harry Vaughan, Godfrey C. Downey, Verne F. Chaney, Fred E. Junion, John M. Carnie. First row standing: Frank Sargart, Ralph W. Taylor, Harry E. Whitney, Carl Pat Reilly, Fred Weiderman, Samuel Dantzig, Francis G. McGowan, Ed Gerye, Charles L. Fredericks, Frank E. Spina, Lawrence F. Becker, Leo J. Gant, Ralph J. Parkins, William H. Breen, James Doherty, Byron E. Thornhill, Ernest L. Schmidt, Mark Connelly, Milton R. Evans, Joseph L. Lavery, Jack O'Sullivan, Earl Van Buskirk, Vere C. Leigh, Clifton J. Sampson, William Meredith, Charles B. Maret, Fred C. Cunningham, Joseph F. Coyle, Chester V. Gibbs, John J. Higinbotham, Thomas F. O'Hare. Last row standing: Edward Jacobson, Herman Rosenberg, Robert E. Joyce, James F. Casey, John Bullard, Frank J. Kunz, Glenn B. Woods, Edward V. Stuart, Albert A. Ridge, Paul W. Liebnitz, Paul R. Sieben, Harry M. Kelley, Daniel R. Thacker, William F. Tierney, John H. Riley, Cleary M. Detling, Harry Groff, James W. Gadwood, John T. Naulty, Robert R. Stewart, Francis Yeager, Edward H. Schmitt, Thomas E. Murphy, Walter B. Menefee, John L. Gordon, George A. Hardy, Edward P. Meisburger, Fred J. Schmidt, Joseph A. Wimmers, Orrie B. Goose. Original is oversized. Autographed in corner by Harry S. Truman "My very best to Bty D, Captain Harry, Harry S. Truman, Nov. 11, 1911, U. S. S. not VP Elect." It was taken at the Hotel President in Kansas City, Missouri.
Date(s)
November 11, 1944