Truman, Harry S., as Thirty-third President

Typed letter signed ("Harry Truman"), 1 page (10 ½ x 8 in.; 266 x 203 mm) on stationery headed The White House, Washington, Washington, 18 July 1946, to Warren Robinson Austin, appointing him Senior Representative of the United States to the General Assembly, two words underlined in red pencil; formerly folded. Together with: mimeographed announcement to the Senate, one page, with list of all representatives appointed.

Typed letter signed ("Harry S Truman"), one page (10 ½ x 8 in.; 266 x 203 mm) on stationery headed The White House, Washington, Washington, 18 July 1946, to Warren Robinson Austin, appointing him Senior Representative of the United States to the General Assembly, two words underlined in red pencil; formerly folded. Together with: mimeographed announcement to the Senate, one page, with list of all representatives appointed.
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President Truman appoints his second ambassador to the United Nations.

Warren Austin (1877-1962) was elected to the Senate in 1931, but resigned to serve as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations from 1946 to 1953. As can be seen by the accompanying announcement to the Senate, he worked with Arthur Vandenberg, Eleanor Roosevelt, John Foster Dulles, and Adlai Stevenson.