Portraits

James W. Riddleberger, Chief, Division of Central European Affairs, United States Department of State, 1944-47; counsellor of embassy, and chief, political section, American Military Government, Berlin, Germany, 1947-50; acting political adviser to commander-in-chief, United States Forces, Germany, 1949-50; political adviser to Economic Cooperation Administration, Paris, 1950-52; appointed a career minister, 1950; director, Bureau of German Affairs, U.S.

Oscar R. Ewing, Attorney, Hughes, Hubbard & Ewing, New York, New York, and predecessor firms, 1919-1947; Assistant Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, 1940-42; Vice Chairman, 1942-47; Special Assistant to the United States Attorney General, 1942 and again in 1947; Acting Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, 1946; Administrator of the Federal Security Agency, 1947-53; and organizer and member of an unofficial political policy group during the Truman administration, 1947-52.

Randall Jessee, Kansas City friend of President and Mrs. Harry S. Truman

Judge William H. Hastie, Assistant Solicitor, Department of the Interior, 1933-37; Judge of the District Court of the Virgin Islands, 1937-39; Dean, Howard University School of Law, 1939-46; Civilian Aide to the Secretary of War, 1940-42; Governor of the Virgin Islands, 1946-49; Judge, 3rd United States Circuit Court of Appeals, 1949-71; and Senior status, 1971-76.

India Edwards, Associate Director, Women\'s Division, Democratic National Committee, 1947-48; Executive Director, Women\'s Division, Democratic National Committee, 1948-50; Vice-chairman, Democratic National Committee, 1950-56; Consultant, Department of Labor, 1964-66. Photo donated by Ms. Edwards.

Tom Evans, Kansas City businessman and civic leader. Photo donated by Harry S. Truman.

This is a portrait of Theodore Tannenwald, Counsel to the Special Assistant to the President, 1950-51.

Samuel Brightman, Assistant Director of Publicity, Democratic National Committee, 1947-1952; Director of Publicity, DNC, 1952-1957.

Kenneth Birkhead, Associate Director of Public Relations for the Research Division of the Democratic National Committee during the 1948 presidential campaign.

Portrait of Mrs. W. L. C. (Ardelia) Palmer, Latin and mathematics teacher of Harry S. Truman and Bess Wallace Truman in Ott High School, Independence, Missouri, September 1898-June 1900.