Vice President Harry S. Truman is Sworn in as President

Truman - Family - Wife - Daughter - 1945; Truman - Oaths - President - 1945; Truman - Bess - Ceremonies - Oath of Office; Truman - Margaret - Ceremonies - Oath of Office

People Pictured

Biddle, Francis B. (Francis Beverley), 1886-1968

Forrestal, James, 1892-1949

Ickes, Harold L. (Harold LeClair), 1874-1952

Krug, Julius A. (Julius Albert), 1907-1970

Martin, Joseph W. (Joseph William), 1884-1968

Morgenthau, Henry, 1891-1967

Perkins, Frances, 1882-1965

Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961

Stettinius, Edward R. (Edward Reilly), 1900-1949

Stimson, Henry L. (Henry Lewis), 1867-1950

Stone, Harlan Fiske, 1872-1946

Truman, Bess Wallace, 1885-1982

Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972

Truman, Margaret (Mary Margaret), 1924-2008

Vinson, Fred M., 1890-1953

Wallace, Henry A. (Henry Agard), 1888-1965

Wickard, Claude R. (Claude Raymond), 1893-1967

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Description

Vice President Harry S. Truman (center left) is being sworn in as President of the United States. With him, from left to right, are Secretary of Labor Francis Perkins, Secretary of War Henry Stimson, Secretary of Commerce Henry Wallace, War Production Board Administrator Julius Krug, Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal, Secretary of Agriculture Claude Wickard, Department Chairman of the War Manpower Commission Francis McNamee, Attorney General Francis Biddle, Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Secretary of State Edward Stettinius (mostly obscured by Truman), Harry S. Truman, Bess Truman, Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes, Margaret Truman, Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court Harlan Stone, Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn, Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion Administrator Fred Vinson, and House Minority Leader Representative Joseph Martin, Jr. From the scrapbooks of Matt Connelly, Volume 1.

Date(s)

April 12, 1945

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Vice President Harry S. Truman is Sworn in as President