Mayors

Former President Harry S. Truman (back seat, center) rides in the back seat of an automobile with Mayor James T. Hanlon (left) and Joseph J. Lawler (right), Pennsylvania Secretary of Highways, in Scranton, Pennsylvania, where he will attend a "Friendly Sons of St. Patrick" dinner. From: George E. Clark, The Scranton Times, Scranton, Pennsylvania.

Faded (purplish) color snapshot of former President Harry S. Truman (left) and Portland, Oregon Mayor Fred L. Peterson (center) in the backseat of an official car preparing to move off for the 47th annual Rose Festival floral parade viewed by crowds estimated at more than 400,000. Another man on the left is unidentified. See also 93-146. From: A.E. Christensen.

Roy Scott (left), Mayor of Fayetteville, Arkansas, a President Harry S. Truman lookalike, poses in front of a Central Airlines plane, named "Miss Fayetteville," with two unidentified men prior to a pre-inaugural flight to St. Louis. From: Central Airlines, Meacham Field, Fort Worth, Texas

Women look out the windows of a "Housewives for Truman" bus during the 1948 presidential campaign in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Standing by the bus are, left to right, Minneapolis Mayor Hubert Humphrey, Mrs. Douglas Hunt, and Mr. Thomas E. Walsh, Chairman, Truman-Barkley Club of Minnesota. From: India Edwards

Standing behind the podium at Memorial Hall, Independence, Missouri Mayor Robert Weatherford speaks during the dedication of a 2,500-pound replica of the Philadelphia Liberty Bell which was sent to Independence by the people of Annecy, France, and was formally accepted by President Harry S. Truman on behalf of Independence and the United States. In front, on the street, can be seen members of an ROTC color guard from William Jewell College. From: A.W. Easter.

Standing behind the podium at Memorial Hall, Robert Weatherford, Mayor of Independence, Missouri, speaks during the dedication of a 2,500-pound replica of the Philadelphia Liberty Bell which was sent to Independence by the people of Annecy, France and was formally accepted by President Harry S. Truman on behalf of Independence and the United States. President Truman is seated just to the right of the flag on the right. All others are unidentified. From: A.W. Easter.

Snapshot of Mayor Georges Volland of Annecy-le-Vieux, France, at the podium in front of Memorial Hall, Independence, Missouri. On behalf of the French, a 2,500 pound replica of the Liberty Bell was presented to Independence, Missouri, at a ceremony presided over by President Harry S. Truman. From: A.W. Easter.

President Harry S. Truman (far left) stands in salute along with New York Mayor Fiorello La Guardia (center) and Admiral William D. Leahy (in front of Mayor La Guardia) on Navy Day in New York City.

President Harry S. Truman (center of the window) stands in a window at City Hall with Mayor Fiorello La Guardia (left of President Truman) while serenaded by a choir of Midshipmen. The plaque below him commemorates the fact that George Washington had stood near that spot while the Declaration of Independence was read to the Continental Army.

President Harry S. Truman (seated behind the desk) is shown signing the visitor's log aboard the U.S.S. Missouri. Standing behind the President are, from left to right, Admiral Jonas H. Ingram, Captain Stuart S. Murray, Mr. Grover Whalen, Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy, Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia (partially obscured), and Commodore James K. Vardaman, Jr.