Legislators

U. S. Senator Richard Russell with unidentified woman at a reception.

Left to right: Charles Ross, Senator Harry Truman and Robert E. Hannegan at the annual Touchdown Club Dinner in Washington, D. C. John L. Sullivan is third from the right.

Congressman Edward T. Taylor (left) watches as Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes signs paperwork relating to the Taylor Grazing Act of 1934. From: Oscar Chapman Scrapbook

Oscar Chapman (standing) gives a speech after being sworn in as Secretary of the Interior. Pictured, seated, left to right: Assistant Secretary of the Interior William Warne; Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney; Julius Krug, former Secretary of the Interior; Chief Justice Fred Vinson; Mrs. Ann Chapman; and Assistant Secretary of the Interior C. Girard Davidson.

From left to right: Senator Lester C. Hunt, Secretary of the Interior Oscar Chapman, Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney, and Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Michael Straus discuss the Riverton Project at the Department of the Interior. From: Oscar Chapman Scrapbook

From left to right: Secretary of the Interior Oscar Chapman; President Harry S. Truman; Congressman John R. Murdock; Senator Joseph O'Mahoney; and Senator Zales Ecton attend a luncheon in the dining room of the Department of the Interior for members of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, the House Public Lands Committee, and the Senate Committee on Public Works. From: Oscar Chapman Scrapbook

From left to right: Vice President Alben Barkley, Under Secretary of the Interior Oscar Chapman; and Senator Hubert Humphrey at the Midwest Farm Conference in Des Moines, Iowa. All others unidentified. From: Oscar Chapman Scrapbook

President Harry S. Truman (back of table, fourth from right) and members of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, the House Public Lands Committee, and the Senate Committee on Public Works attend a luncheon in the dining room of the Department of the Interior. Also pictured: Secretary of the Interior Oscar Chapman (back of table, fifth from right); Senator Joseph O'Mahoney (back of table, third from right); Senator Zales Ecton (back of table, second from right); Congressman John R. Murdock (back of table, standing); and Appointment Secretary Matthew Connelly (back of table, left).

President Harry S. Truman (third from right) congratulates Tom C. Clark (second from left) on being sworn in as Associate Supreme Court Justice. From left to right: Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer; Clark; Secretary of State Dean Acheson; Vice President Alben Barkley; Secretary of the Treasury John Snyder; Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn; President Truman; Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson; and Chief Justice Fred Vinson.

Under Secretary of the Interior Oscar Chapman (at podium) delivers the Address of the Day at the 85th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Also pictured: Senator Francis J. Myers (left); Joseph J. Lawler, Third Assistant Postmaster General (second from right); and John D. Lippy, Jr., author and Vice President of the Lincoln Fellowship of Pennsylvania (right). From: Oscar Chapman Scrapbook