Downey, Sheridan, 1884-1961

President Harry S. Truman meets with Democratic Party Senators in the Oval Office, shortly after becoming President. First row (seated): unidentified; Glen H. Taylor. Second row (kneeling): two unidentified men; Joseph C. O'Mahoney; Dennis Chavez; Sheridan Downey; Warren Magnuson; and Claude Pepper. Third row: Carl Hatch; Joseph Guffey; unidentified; Allen Ellender; Kenneth McKellar; President Truman; Theodore Bilbo; Pat McCarran; Josiah Bailey; and Peter Gerry.

President Harry S. Truman meets with Democratic Party Senators in the Oval Office, shortly after becoming President. First row (seated): unidentified; Glen H. Taylor. Second row (kneeling): two unidentified men; Joseph C. O'Mahoney; Dennis Chavez; Sheridan Downey; Warren Magnuson; and Claude Pepper. Third row: Carl Hatch; Joseph Guffey; unidentified; Allen Ellender; Kenneth McKellar; President Truman; Theodore Bilbo; Pat McCarran; Josiah Bailey; and Peter Gerry.

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.

Photo of William F. Knowland (left), former Army Major appointed by Governor Earl Warren to succeed the late Hiram Johnson as Senator from California, being sworn in by Senator Kenneth McKellar (right), President Pro-Tempore of the Senate. Senator Sheridan Downey, senior Senator from California, is shown in center of picture. From: Beth Gore.