Political leadership

First Lady Bess W. Truman attends a tea at the Carlton Hotel in honor of India Edwards, Executive Director, Women's Division, Democratic National Committee, by Washington, D.C. newspaper women. From left to right: Margaret Truman, Esther Tufty, India Edwards, Eda Brannan, and Bess Truman.

Mrs. India Edwards, Vice-Chairman, Democratic National Committee (left) with Leo Cherne, Executive Director of the Research Institute of America (right) at a dinner in New York City, New York.

Mrs. India Edwards, Vice-Chairman, Democratic National Committee (left), being presented to Austrian Chancellor Leopold Figl (right) by United States High Commissioner Walter Donnelly (center).

President Harry S. Truman (left) shaking the hand of Mrs. India Edwards, Executive Director of the Women's Division of the Democratic National Committee (second from right) after crashing a party at the Carlton Hotel in Edwards' honor hosted by Washington, D.C. newspaper women. Also present are Esther Tufty (second from left) and Eda Brannan (right).

President Harry S. Truman poses with a large group of Democrats outside the White House. Front row (l-r): O.S. Warden, Democratic National Committee Member; Oscar R. Ewing, Democratic National Committee Vice Chairman; Leif Erickson, Nominee for Senator, Montana; Governor Herbert R. O'Conor, Nominee for Senator, Maryland; President Truman; Bernice (Mrs. Wallace) Kingsbury; Postmaster General Robert E. Hannegan; H.J. McMurray, Nominee for Senator, Wisconsin; John Redstrom, Nominee for Representative, Wisconsin; M.G. Burnside, Nominee for Representative, West Virginia; J.Y.

Mrs. India Edwards, Executive Director, Women's Division, Democratic National Committee (right), with an unidentified man during a Democratic Party event in Chicago, Illinois.

Dinner guests of the captain of the S.S. Liberte. Pictured: Treasurer of the United States Georgia Neese Clark (first row from left, fourth from the bottom); Mrs. India Edwards, Vice Chairman, Democratic National Committee (first row, third from the top); and Mrs. Helle Bonnet, wife to the French Ambassador to the United States (second row, fourth from the top). All other individuals are unidentified.

From left to right Mrs. India Edwards, Executive Director, Women's Division, Democratic National Committee (right); two unidentified women; Maryland Governor William Preston Lane Jr.; Sara (Mrs. John L.) Whitehurst, of Baltimore, Maryland, delegate to the Democratic National Convention; and Baltimore Mayor Thomas D'Alesandro; and two unidentified women.

Mr. George Killion (left) with Nat Lichtblau (right), both of whom are involved in the Democratic Party.

Mrs. India Edwards, Vice-chairman, Democratic National Committee (right) with United States Treasurer Mrs. Georgia Neese Clark in Paris, France.