Pauley, Edwin W. (Edwin Wendell), 1903-1981

Ambassador Edwin W. Pauley (right) with Postmaster Robert Hannegan (middle) and an unidentified man in an office.

Ambassador Edwin W. Pauley, sheaf of papers in hand, rises to speak at the February 27, 1946, hearing before the Senate Naval Committee on his fitness to serve as Undersecretary of the Navy.

Ambassador Edwin W. Pauley (second from left) with Pat and Jerry Frawley, holding award, and three unidentified individuals.

Faded photograph of Ambassador Edwin W. Pauley (right) with an unidentified man.

Ambassador Edwin W. Pauley (center), President Harry S. Truman's nominee for Undersecretary of the Navy who was up for confirmation before the Senate Naval Affairs Committee, confers with committee members Senator Sheridan Downey (Democrat from California) on the left, and Senator Owen Brewster (Republican from Maine) on the right, as a halt is called in the hearing on Pauley's fitness for the Navy post.

Ambassador Edwin W. Pauley (left) confers with Senator Leverett Saltonstall (Republican from Massachusetts), Senate Naval Affairs Committee member, during a hearing into Pauley's fitness to be Undersecretary of the Navy. Saltonstall suggested on February 26, 1946, that Pauley withdraw his name.

The family of Ambassador Edwin W. Pauley at the home of President Harry S. Truman in Independence, Missouri. From left to right, Robert V. Pauley {Buzz}, Mrs. Edwin Pauley, Edwin Pauley, Stephen M. Pauley {Steve}. The Pauley family was in Independence for the opening of the Harry S. Truman Library.

Ambassador Edwin W. Pauley seated at his desk.

Official photographic portrait of Ambassador Edwin W. Pauley.

Ambassador Edwin Pauley stands on the tarmac in front of an Air Transport Command airplane at a Los Angeles airport, upon his return from the Orient. Left to Right: Col. J.R. Gilchrist, Ambassador Edwin Pauley, Mrs. Barbara Pauley, Mrs. Claude Cameron. Photograph taken after the U.S. Reparations Mission. Edwin Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-47 (the committee that assessed the reparations Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).