Hildreth, Melvin Davis, 1890-1959

Melvin D. Hildreth, general chairman of the 1949 Inaugural Committee (left), accepts a new Packard automobile from Sam Broden (right), zone manager of the Packard Motor Company. The car was loaned to the Inaugural Committee by the Packard Motor Company as a person vehicle for Mr. Hildreth.

Walter F. Bramhall and Melvin D. Hildreth, Secretary and Chairman respectively of the 1949 Inaugural Committee, stand in front of committee office space.

Melvin D. Hildreth (left) and Walter F. Bramhall (right), Chairman and Secretary respectively of the 1949 Inaugural Committee, stand in front of committee office space.

In the Oval Office at the White House, President Harry S. Truman (seated) signs the document authorizing the participation of the United States in the International Exposition for the Bicentennial of the founding of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Standing from left to right are: Rene Colimon, 1st Secretary of the Haitian Embassy in Washington, D.C.; Jules Domond, Commercial Attache at the Haitian Embassy; and Melvin Hildreth, President of the Democratic Party of Washington, D.C. From: Pierre Edouard Domond, Courtesy of the Chantal Domond Prints and Photographs Collection