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Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972

President Truman Takes Oath of Office

President Harry S. Truman takes the oath of office after President Franklin D. Roosevelt's death in the Cabinet Room, Executive Offices, at the White House. Left to right: Francis Biddle, Attorney General; Henry Morgenthau, Secretary of the Treasury (behind Biddle); Edward Stettinius, Secretary of State; Harry S. Truman; Mrs. Bess Wallace Truman; Harold Ickes, Secretary of the Interior; Margaret Truman; Harlan Stone, Chief Justice, United States Supreme Court; Sam Rayburn, Speaker, House of Representatives.

President Truman and his Cabinet

President Harry S. Truman and his Cabinet. From L to R: Secretary of Agriculture, Clinton P. Anderson; Secretary of Labor, Lewis Schwellenbach; Secretary of Commerce, W. Averell Harriman; Secretary of Interior, Julius Krug; Postmaster General Robert Hannegan; Secretary of War, Robert Patterson; Secretary of State, George C. Marshall; President Harry S. Truman; Secretary of the Treasury, John W. Snyder; Attorney General Tom Clark; and Secretary of the Navy, James Forrestal.

Senator Truman at a Banquet

Senator Harry S. Truman and others at the speaker's table at the 9th Anniversary Luncheon of the National Planning Association at the Statler Hotel, Washington, D.C. From left to right: nine unidentified men; Charles E. Wilson; Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney; William Green, President of the American Federation of Labor; Senator Truman; H. Christian Sonne, Chairman of the National Planning Association Executive Committee; Nelson Rockefeller, Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs.