Political candidates

Former President Harry S. Truman shakes hands with Adlai Stevenson, Democratic candidate for President, and other unidentified Party leaders at the Democratic Convention in Chicago held in August, 1956.

Judge and Democratic Senatorial candidate Harry S. Truman (left) with Representative John J. Cochran (right).

President Harry S. Truman rides with two Democratic candidates, Stuart Symington (center) and Phil Donnelly (right), on the way from Union Station to the Park Plaza Hotel, St. Louis, Missouri. President Truman holds two apples in his hand.

Judge Harry S. Truman (right) at home with his wife, Bess Wallace Truman (seated in chair) and daughter Margaret. They are in the living room of the Truman home. From: Kansas City Star.

Portrait of Harry S. Truman, possible Senator-elect. Truman was the Democratic candidate for Senator from Missouri.

Group of four photographs, in a composite published in the Kansas City Star 8-12-34, as follows: Upper left - The old Truman Home on the 600 acre farm near Grandview; right, Senatorial nominee, Harry S. Truman, in home in Independence, Missouri, behind him stands a clock made in England in 1722, brought to Vermont by an early ancestor of Mrs. Truman's and to Independence by her great grandfather; lower left, Mrs. David W. Wallace (Madge Gates) daughter of George P. Gates, and mother of Mrs. Truman; center, 82-year old mother of Harry S. Truman, Martha Truman. From: the Kansas City Star

Missouri Senator Harry S. Truman, Democratic Vice Presidential candidate, speaking in Peoria, Illinois. Senator Truman is denying the charges that started in 1922 that he was a former member of the Ku Klux Klan.

President Truman (seated at left) listens to a speech by Henry Wallace at the Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner at the Mayflower Hotel. The President addressed the group later.

Bess Truman and Margaret Truman at the Democratic Convention, celebrating after the nomination of Senator Harry S. Truman (not in photograph) as the Vice Presidential candidate.

Shown with President Harry S. Truman (left) in the Oval Office is William J. O'Dwyer, Democratic candidate for Mayor of New York. From: Beth Gore.