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Harry S. Truman Taking the Oath of Office

63-1499-02 (untitled)
Accession Number
63-1499-02
8x10 inches (21x26 cm)
Black & White
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Keywords
Cabinet officers
Children of presidents
First ladies
Judges
Legislators
Oaths
Presidential succession
Presidents
HST Keywords
Truman - Cabinet - Members - Oath of Office; Truman - Dignitaries - Congress - Leaders; Truman - Family - Wife - Daughter - 1945; Truman - Oaths - President - 1945; Truman - Bess - Family - HST - MT - Presidency; Truman - Margaret - Cabinet [with]; Truman - Margaret - Family - HST & Bess - Presidency
People Pictured
Stone, Harlan Fiske, 1872-1946
Truman, Bess Wallace, 1885-1982
Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972
Truman, Margaret (Mary Margaret), 1924-2008
Forrestal, James, 1892-1949
Krug, Julius A. (Julius Albert), 1907-1970
Martin, Joseph W. (Joseph William), 1884-1968
Morgenthau, Henry, 1891-1967
Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
Stettinius, Edward R. (Edward Reilly), 1900-1949
Stimson, Henry L. (Henry Lewis), 1867-1950
Vinson, Fred M., 1890-1953
Wallace, Henry A. (Henry Agard), 1888-1965
Wickard, Claude R. (Claude Raymond), 1893-1967
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Life Magazine

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Description

Harry S. Truman taking the oath of office at the White House after the death of President Roosevelt. From left to right: Henry Stimson, Secretary of War; Henry Wallace, Secretary of Commerce; Julius Krug, War Production Board Administrator; James Forrestal, Secretary of the Navy; Claude Wickard, Secretary of Agriculture; Henry Morgenthau, Secretary of the Treasury; Harry S. Truman; Edward Stettinius, Secretary of State; Bess Wallace Truman; Harlan Stone, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court; Margaret Truman (mostly obscured by Justice Stone); Sam Rayburn, Speaker of the House; Fred Vinson, Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion; Representative Joseph Martin, House Minority Leader.

Date(s)
April 12, 1945