Ross, Charles G. (Charles Griffith), 1885-1950

President Harry S. Truman throws out the first pitch at a baseball game between the Washington Senators and Philadelphia Athletics. In the front row, from left to right: Margaret Truman, First Lady Bess W. Truman, President Truman, General Robert Landry, Connie Mack, Vice President Alben Barkley, and Washington Senators manager Bucky Harris. Seated near the center, partly obscured by President Truman is Press Secretary Charles Ross. Standing a few rows directly behind President Truman is Colonel Cornelius Mara (in uniform). All others are unidentified.

Left to right: Canada's Prime Minister Mackenzie King, President Harry S. Truman, and the Chief of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, waiting to speak at a press conference held on the lawn of the Seignory Club at Monte-Bello, Ontario. The President is in Canada on a three-day trip where he addressed a joint session of the Canadian Senate and Parliament at Ottawa. Standing directly behind the President is Ray Atherton, U.S. Ambassador to Canada. Standing on the left is Charles Ross, the President's Press Secretary. (See also 65-581 through 606.) From: Bjorn Bjornson.

This is a photograph of a political cartoon by Jim Berryman for the Washington Evening Star. President Harry S. Truman is standing behind a desk, saying, "It was right here when I left for St. Louis!" Standing beside him is William Boyle (left) and John Steelman (right), sweating and looking through a file cabinet and emptying a trash container. Kneeling on the floor are Charles Ross and General Harry Vaughan. Vaughan is pointing at a small creature coming out of a hole in the floor.

President Truman in first row at a Washington Senators baseball game. Seated next to him at right are Admiral William Leahy and Press Secretary Charles Ross. On the base of the stereograph is the typed quote "The President: You see, Bess, these balls aren't as good as the kind I used at Noland." From; Lowell Mason's Stereographic Library, Annual Baseball Outing, Volumes I and II. Photographs are of Baseball, Clam and Chowder Club of the United States Senate, of which Harry S. Truman was a member.

Stereograph of Senator and Mrs. Harry S. Truman at a baseball game for the Washington Senators. Margaret Truman can be seen at the far left. Charles Ross can be seen in the row behind Truman. From: Lowell Mason's Stereographic Library, Annual Baseball Outing, Volumes I and II. Photographs are of Baseball, Clam and chowder club of the United States Senate, of which Harry S. Truman was a member.

President Harry S. Truman (right front), Mrs. Bess Truman, and cabinet members leave the Capitol today after the President addressed a Joint Session of the House and Senate. Left to Right: Front, Secretary of State George Marshall; Bess Truman; Secretary of the Treasury John Snyder; and the President. Back: Postmaster General Robert Hannegan; Secretary of Agriculture Clinton Anderson; Attorney General Tom Clark; and Charles Ross, Press Secretary to the President. From: Houston Post.

Aboard the presidential yacht Williamsburg, President Harry S. Truman signs a veto to Congress's Tax Reduction Bill. Looking on are Charles Ross, Presidential Press Secretary (left) and William J. Hopkins, Executive Clerk of the White House (right). From: Houston Post.

Harry S. Truman, Bess Wallace, and Charles Ross, among others, posing for high school graduating class photo, Independence, Missouri, 1901. Back row: Henry Chiles; Elmer Twyman; William Lloyd Garrett; Harry Truman; Will Long; Myrtle Cronkhite; Laura Ford; Mary Anderson; Gertrude Dixon; Laura Kingsbury. Third row: Crawford Compton; Leura Walters; Katie Krey; Gertrude Reyner. Second row: Tasker P. Taylor; Louretta Meador; Minnie Carpenter; Grace Crandall; Mary Taylor; James T. Brown; Mary Chinn; Itaska Atkinson; Bertha Roberts; Bess Wallace.

President Harry S. Truman (standing) addresses the Canadian Parliament during his official visit.(L-R) Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King, U.S. Ambassador to Canada, Ray Atherton, Admiral William Leahy and Press Secretary Charles Ross (seated) listen as the president speaks.

All hands turn out to welcome Press Secretary Charles Ross and Matthew Connelly to Key West, Florida. From left to right: Donald Dawson, Wallace Graham, Charles Ross (back to camera), Harry Vaughan (wearing long-sleeved shirt, obscured by Connelly), Matthew Connelly (facing right), unidentified man in striped shirt, Margaret Truman, unidentified man, John Steelman (mostly obscured by Truman), President Harry S. Truman, General Robert Landry, Governor Mon Wallgren, and Admiral Robert Dennison.