Mayors

Portrait of Mayor Roger T. Sermon sitting at his desk in his office in Independence, Missouri. From: E.W. Collins, Collins Photo Co.

Portrait of Mayor Roger T. Sermon sitting at his desk in his office in Independence, Missouri. From: E.W. Collins, Collins Photo Co.

From the rear platform of a train, President Harry S. Truman (second from the left) looks down at the crowd gathered to greet him at a Whistlestop in Sacramento, California, during a campaign tour. The man on the left is Harold T. Johnson, Mayor of Roseville, California. The other man is unidentified. From: Carol Paoli, Plumas County, Museum, 500 Jackson St., Quincy, CA 95971

From the rear platform of a train, President Harry S. Truman (second from the left) surveys the crowd gathered to meet him at a whistlestop in Sacramento, California, during a campaign tour. Harold T. Johnson, Mayor of Roseville, California, is on Truman's right. The other men are unidentified. From: Carol Paoli, Plumas County, Museum, 500 Jackson St., Quincy, CA 95971

From the rear platform of a train, President Harry S. Truman (second from the left) smiles at the crowd gathered to greet him at a whistlestop in Sacramento, California during a campaign tour. On the left is Harold T. Johnson, mayor of Roseville, California. The other men are unidentified. From: Carol Paoli, Plumas County Museum, 500 Jackson St., Quincy, CA 95971

From left to right, Harold T. Johnson, Mayor of Roseville, California, President Harry S. Truman, Bess Truman, and Margaret Truman on the rear platform of a train leaving for San Francisco after making a Whistlestop at Sacramento, California. From: Carol Paoli, Plumas County Museum, 500 Jackson St., Quincy, CA 95971

President Harry S. Truman converses with Tom Mooney (left), Mayor, Lexington, Kentucky; Senator Virgil Chapman (2nd from right), Democrat, Kentucky; and Tom Underwood (right), editor, Lexington Herald, on the back of a train making a campaign whistlestop in Lexington, Kentucky, where the President will address a crowd of supporters. From: James F. Rourke.

Former President Harry S. Truman (right) with New York Governor Averell Harriman (left) and New York Mayor Robert F. Wagner (center), winding up his one-day campaign swing, on behalf of Democratic Presidential nominee Adlai Stevenson and Senatorial candidate Robert F. Wagner, at New York's Manhattan Center. From: Maxwell C. Ross, Old American Insurance Company, Kansas City, Missouri

Harry S. Truman is greeted by a crowd at Fairfax Airport in Kansas City, Kansas upon his first visit to the area after becoming President. Those identified in the crowd are, left to right, Roger T. Sermon, Mayor of Independence, Margaret Truman, daughter of the President, and President Harry S. Truman. The airplane is the "Sacred Cow". Original photograph is oversized. From: Transferred from Museum Collection in 1985.

Harry S. Truman is greeted by a crowd at Fairfax Airport in Kansas City, Kansas upon his first return to the area after becoming President. Those identified are, left to right, Roger T. Sermon, Mayor of Independence, J. Vivian Truman, brother of the President, and Margaret Truman, daughter of the President. Original photograph is oversized.