Morris, Edgar, 1889-1968

President Harry S. Truman, Bess Truman, and Margaret Truman at the 1949 Inaugural Ball at the National Guard Armory, Washington, D.C. From left to right: unidentified man, Mrs. Bess W. Truman, Ms. Perle Mesta, President Truman, Margaret Truman, Inaugural Ball Co-Chairman Edgar Morris, and Arthur Bergman.

From left to right John R. Steelman, Congressman Gerald Ford and Edgar Morris, Washington, D.C. representative of Westinghouse share a laugh at the "Circus, Saints and Sinners" Luncheon.

Edgar Morris, President of the Washington Board of Trade (at podium) gives a welcoming address for President Auriol of France. Front row, left to right: Secretary of Agriculture Charles F. Brannan, Secretary of the Interior Oscar Chapman, Attorney General J. Howard McGrath, Secretary of Defense George C. Marshall, French Ambassador to the United States Henri Bonnet, Vice President Alben Barkley, French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman, President Harry S. Truman, French President Vincent Auriol, District Commissioner John R. Young, unidentified (behind Morris), First Lady Bess W.

The Presidential party at the Inaugural Ball, held at the National Guard Armory in Washington, D.C. From left to right, First Lady Bess Truman, Washington hostess Perle Mesta, President Harry S. Truman, Margaret Truman, Ball co-chairman Edgar Morris, and Arthur Bergman. Others are unidentified.