Legislators

Tennessee Senator Estes Kefauver (center, at microphones) addresses unidentified members of the press after a meeting at the White House with President Harry S. Truman.

Tennessee Senator Estes Kefauver (foreground) leaves the White House after meeting with President Harry S. Truman. All others unidentified.

Tennessee Senator Estes Kefauver speaks with unidentified members of the press after a meeting with President Harry S. Truman at the White House.

Senator and Vice-Presidential nominee Harry S. Truman (left) shakes hands with Senator Robert Wagner (right) of New York upon his renomination for a fourth term.

Secretary of the Treasury John W. Snyder shown as he tells the Senate Finance Committee that "increased disturbances to world peace" presumably spread of the Korean War, would make it necessary to boost instead of reduce taxes.

From left to right, Senator Elmer Thomas, Senator Alben W. Barkley, Governor Robert S. Kerr, Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn, Democratic National Committee Chairman Robert E. Hannegan, and Senator James Tunnell at a luncheon in Washington, D.C., given in honor of Governor Kerr. Governor Kerr was the keynote speaker at the Democratic National Convention.

From left to right, Cook County State's Attorney Thomas J. Courtney, Senator Scott Lucas, Democratic National Committee Chairman Robert E. Hannegan, and Chicago Mayor Edward J. Kelly at the convention in Chicago for Illinois Democrats. Singer Sophie Tucker sits behind them. All others unidentified.

From left to right: Joseph T. Higgins, Chairman of the Thomas Jefferson Day Dinner; Robert E. Hannegan, Democratic National Committee Chairman; Senator Alben W. Barkley, Senate Majority Leader; and James A. Farley, Democratic State Committee Chairman at the Jefferson Day Dinner at the Commodore Hotel in New York City.

Democratic National Committee Chairman Robert E. Hannegan (right) shakes hand with Senator Kenneth McKellar after being elected as Chairman. All others unidentified.