Voting

Chaim Weizmann, right, casts a ballot in Israel's first election. He became Israel's first President. Donor: Album loaned by Elinor Borenstine.

This is a split photograph. The left side shows former President Harry S. Truman in the voting booth at Memorial Hall in Independence, Missouri. The right side shows the former President leaving the Truman residence, standing at the gate.

This is a split photograph. On the left, former President Harry S. Truman votes with his brother-in-law Mr. George Wallace (at right) giving instruction. On the right, the former President leaves smiling, but doesn't want to predict the outcome. Mr. Truman votes at Memorial Hall in Independence, Missouri.

Mrs. Irma P. Hannegan (left) and Postmaster General Robert E. Hannegan (second from left) vote in the basement of a house in the 1st Ward, 12th Precinct in St. Louis, Missouri. Women at right unidentified.

Mrs. Irma P. Hannegan (standing, left) and Postmaster General Robert E. Hannegan (standing, right) vote in the basement of a house in the 1st Ward, 12th Precinct in St. Louis, Missouri. Others on left are unidentified.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt (center) exiting polls on Election Day in Hyde Park, New York. With President Roosevelt are unidentified Secret Service aides.

President Harry S. Truman arrives at the Kansas City Municipal Airport to vote in Tuesday's election. Left to right are Mr. and Mrs. Frank Wallace, George Wallace, and the President. From: May Wallace.

This is a sample ballot of the election that took place November 4, 1924. Harry S. Truman was running for Judge of the County Court, Eastern Division, Jackson County, Missouri.

President Harry S. Truman casts his vote at the polls at the Memorial Building in Independence, Missouri. Election judge Tom Snoddy stands just behind Mr. Truman. 

From left to right, President Harry S. Truman, Bess Wallace Truman, and Margaret Truman voting in the 1952 Presidential election in Independence, Missouri. All others are unidentified.