Webb, James E. (James Edwin), 1906-1992

Photograph of James E. Webb taken when he was a member of the Municipal Manpower Commission established by the Ford and Sloan Foundations to study personnel and management needs in the nation's cities.

James E. Webb, head of NASA (left), shown with two members of the Board of Trustees of the Meridian House Foundation. See also 98-185.

James E. Webb (8th from left) shown attending a fund raising dinner with the Board of Trustees for the Meridian House Foundation.

The State Department new top level diplomatic team took over active direction of the nation's foreign policy when James E. Webb, former budget director, was sworn in as Under Secretary of State. Mr. Webb is shown with the new Secretary of State Dean Acheson shortly after the ceremony at the State Department. From: Beth Gore. From Beth Gore

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee today unanimously approved the nomination of James E. Webb to be Undersecretary of State. Webb, now Budget Director, will succeed retiring Undersecretary Robert Lovett. Shown with Webb at todays hearing is Chairman Tom Connally, (D) of Texas, left, who said he will ask Senate confirmation on Thursday. From: Beth Gore.

Latest informal photo of James E. Webb, new Director of the Budget. From: Beth Gore.

President Harry S. Truman is shown speaking to foreign diplomats, possibly from the Philippines, while Undersecretary of State James E. Webb, (right, with hat in hand) looks on.

President Truman's choices for his new Secretary and Under Secretary of State, Dean Acheson, at left, and James E. Webb, were photographed in this informal conference in the park across from the White House shortly after their appointments were announced. Dean Acheson has been in and out of the government since Franklin Roosevelt's first term and Webb is now Director of the Budget. From: Beth Gore