TRUMAN | photographic portrait, signed and inscribed, c. late 1940s

TRUMAN, HARRY S.

PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAIT, C. LATE 1940S

280 by 354mm., black and white photograph by Chase-Statler, signed and inscribed ("Best wishes to Hon. Laurence A. Steinhardt | from Harry Truman"), photographer's stamp lower right corner and verso,

Laurence A. Steinhardt served as the United States ambassador to Canada (1948-1950) and Czechoslovakia (1945-1948) under Truman, and to Turkey (1942-1945), the Soviet Union (1939-1941) and Peru (1937-1939) under Franklin D. Roosevelt.

While serving as ambassador to Canada, Steinhardt was killed in a plane crash, becoming the first United States Ambassador to be killed in office

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