Freeman, Orville L. (Orville Lothrop), 1918-2003

President Harry S. Truman (second from right) shakes hands with three people at a Truman Day celebration in Minneapolis, Minnesota. With him is Orville Freeman (second from left), State Chairman of the Democratic-Farm-Labor Party. Others are unidentified. Two of the people are wearing Truman Day ribbons. Donor: Dorothy Girton. Used by Democratic Digest.

Large group of men assembled around a table during a meal. Included in the group are Undersecretary of Agriculture Charles S. Murphy (fourth from left), Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman (head of table, center), Deputy Secretary of Agriculture James L. Sundquist (partially obscured, fourth from right), and Maine Senator Edmund Muskie (third from right). This photograph originally came from the "Deputy Secretary of Agriculture" folder. Photograph has an original notation that says ST-1196-3.

Howard Cowden (standing) delivers remarks at a tribute luncheon held in honor of former President Harry S. Truman, hosted by the Farmers of America and held at the RLDS (Community of Christ) Auditorium in Independence, Missouri. Seated at the head table are James Patton, Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman, Herbert Sugden, and John Anderson.

Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman (standing) is delivering remarks at a tribute luncheon held in honor of former President Harry S. Truman, hosted by the Farmers of America at the RLDS (Community of Christ) Auditorium in Independence, Missouri. Seated behind Mr. Freeman is Howard Cowden. All others are unidentified.

Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman (standing) is delivering remarks at a tribute luncheon held in honor of former President Harry S. Truman, hosted by the Farmers of America at the RLDS (Community of Christ) Auditorium in Independence, Missouri. Seated behind Mr. Freeman is Howard Cowden. All others are unidentified.

Washington, D. C. Former President Harry S. Truman receives a leather bound book containing letters of thanks from 55 nations for his initiation of the Point Four program at a banquet of the Sixth National Conference on Economic and Social Development here tonight at which Truman was speaker. Eric Johnston, left, chairman of the Committee for International Economic Growth, made the presentation. In center, rear, is Minnesota Governor Orville Freeman, chairman of the banquet. From: Houston Post.

Charles S. Murphy, Civil Aeronautics Board Chairman (1965-1968), is shown on the right. U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman is seen second from the left. The others in view are not identified. Murphy is attending what is described as a graduate school dinner. This may be the U.S. Department of Agriculture Graduate School in which Murphy was a member of the board.

Charles S. Murphy, Civil Aeronautics Board Chairman (1965-1968), is shown on the right shaking hands with a young man. Murphy, as a member of the General Administration Board of the U.S. Department of Agriculture Graduate School, was in attendance at this youth event they sponsored, possibly scholarship related. According to his name badges, the young man on the left is Arthur Arnold, Student Inst., Forestry Aide, Firefighter. A portrait of Orville L. Freeman, Secretary of Agriculture (1961-1969) is hanging on the wall beside them. Exact location not given, probably a Washington, D.C.

Chief Justice Earl Warren (left), Former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt (center), and Senator William Knowland (right) are sitting in the front row at the dedication ceremony for the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library in Independence, Missouri. Seated behind Mrs. Roosevelt and Mr. Knowland is former Attorney General James McGranery. Seated in the top row are, from left to right: unidentified man, unidentified woman in red hat, Orville Freeman, Governor G. Mennen Williams of Michigan, and Averell Harriman. All others are unidentified.

Identification reads: "Secretary of Agriculture Orville L. Freeman, left, swears in Charles Murphy, right, as Under Secretary of Agriculture, during a ceremony in Secretary Freeman's office in the Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C., March 21, 1961." Men in the background are not identified.