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Vice President Harry S. Truman is Sworn in as President

64-19-02
Accession Number
64-19-02
6.5x8.5 inches
Black & White
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NAID 343790573
Keywords
Cabinet officers
Children of presidents
First ladies
Judges
Legislators
Oaths
Presidential advisors
Presidential succession
Presidents
HST Keywords
Truman - Family - Wife - Daughter - 1945; Truman - Oaths - President - 1945; Truman - Bess - Ceremonies - Oath of Office; Truman - Margaret - Ceremonies - Oath of Office
People Pictured
Biddle, Francis B. (Francis Beverley), 1886-1968
Forrestal, James, 1892-1949
Ickes, Harold L. (Harold LeClair), 1874-1952
Krug, Julius A. (Julius Albert), 1907-1970
Martin, Joseph W. (Joseph William), 1884-1968
Morgenthau, Henry, 1891-1967
Perkins, Frances, 1882-1965
Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
Stettinius, Edward R. (Edward Reilly), 1900-1949
Stimson, Henry L. (Henry Lewis), 1867-1950
Stone, Harlan Fiske, 1872-1946
Truman, Bess Wallace, 1885-1982
Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972
Truman, Margaret (Mary Margaret), 1924-2008
Vinson, Fred M., 1890-1953
Wallace, Henry A. (Henry Agard), 1888-1965
Wickard, Claude R. (Claude Raymond), 1893-1967
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International News Photos

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Description

Vice President Harry S. Truman (center left) is being sworn in as President of the United States. With him, from left to right, are Secretary of Labor Francis Perkins, Secretary of War Henry Stimson, Secretary of Commerce Henry Wallace, War Production Board Administrator Julius Krug, Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal, Secretary of Agriculture Claude Wickard, Department Chairman of the War Manpower Commission Francis McNamee, Attorney General Francis Biddle, Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Secretary of State Edward Stettinius (mostly obscured by Truman), Harry S. Truman, Bess Truman, Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes, Margaret Truman, Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court Harlan Stone, Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn, Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion Administrator Fred Vinson, and House Minority Leader Representative Joseph Martin, Jr. From the scrapbooks of Matt Connelly, Volume 1.

Date(s)
April 12, 1945