Legislators

Senator Herbert Lehman (center) chats with fellow New York State Democratic Committee Dinner attendee. New York Governor W. Averell Harriman is nearby with his back to the camera. From: George S. Zimbel Collection.

Dillard Lasseter (left) is talking with Representative William Colmer, Mississippi, Chairman, House Rules Committee (right).

Dillard Lasseter, Administrator of the Farmer's Home Administration (FHA), with others at a FHA ceremony, probably in Georgia. From left to right: Dillard Lasseter, Mr. Herndon, Mrs. Herndon, Senator Richard B. Russell, and Mr. W. N. Adams, member of State FHA Advisory Committee.

Congressman Stephen Pace (right) and Farmers Home Administration head Dillard Lasseter (left) meet to discuss the new loan program for farmers.

Farmers Home Administrator Dillard Lasseter (right) presents a loan check to Victor E. Bergquist (left). Looking on are Minnesota Congressman Fred Marshall and Farmers Home Administration State Director of Minnesota Leo P. Brown.

Farmers Home Administration leader Dillard Lasseter attended a ceremony for the closing of the first farm housing loan in Scottsboro, Alabama. From left to right: Congressman Albert Rains, Senator Lister Hill, Senator John Sparkman, Mrs. Jones, Vaughn L. Jones, Congressman Robert E. Jones, Congressman Carl Elliott and Administrator Lasseter.

Dillard Lasseter, Farmers Home Administration, (left) with Senator Richard Russell, Georgia, Chairman of the Armed Forces Committee.

Men attending the banquet of the National Association of Home Builders, Statler Hotel Washington, D.C. Foreground, from left to right: unidentified man, President of National Association of Home Builders; Senator Wallace F. Bennett of Utah; Housing and Home Finance Agency Administrator Raymond Foley; and Frank Cartwright of the National Association Home Builders. Others in the background are unidentified.

Luncheon at the Vanderberg Room, Capitol Building, Washington, D.C. Seated left to right: Housing and Home Finance Administrator Raymond M. Foley, Senator Frank Carlson, Governor Edward F. Arn, Senator Andrew F. Schoeppel, and Alfred E. Howse, assistant to director to Charles E. Wilson of the Office of Defense Mobilization. Standing from left to right: Representative Myron V. George; Representative Errett P. Scrivner; Representative Clifford R. Hope; and Representative Edward H. Rees (all of Kansas).

Signing of First Reservations Under the Title I Housing Act of 1949. Seated: Nathaniel Keith, Director, Division of Slum Clearance and Urban Redevelopment; and Raymond Foley, Administrator, Housing and Home Finance Agency. Standing: (left to right) Wallace Irwin of United States Senator Howard Smith's office (New Jersey); James Stephenson, of Dallas, Texas; Congressmen J. Percy Priest; Congressman Eugene McCarthy; Paul Betters, of the United States Conference of Mayors; Walter Stults of United States Senator Robert C.