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Secretary of Defense and Mrs. Louis Johnson at the State Dinner for the President of Chile, Gabriel Gonzalez Videla.

1. Secretary of Defense and Mrs. Louis Johnson, Washington, D. C.

IDNO:
053290
Title:
Secretary of Defense and Mrs. Louis Johnson, Washington, D. C.
Date:
1950/04/13
Description:
Secretary of Defense and Mrs. Louis Johnson at the State Dinner for the President of Chile, Gabriel Gonzalez Videla.
Pictured left to right: Ray Murphy, Ed Spafford, Ralph T. O'Neill, General James A. Drain, Stephen Chadwick, Harry Colmery, Raymond J. Kelly, John R. Quinn, Louis Johnson, Paul McNutt.

2. Past National Commanders of the American Legion, Indianapolis, Indiana

IDNO:
053289
Title:
Past National Commanders of the American Legion, Indianapolis, Indiana
Date:
1939/11
Description:
Pictured left to right: Ray Murphy, Ed Spafford, Ralph T. O'Neill, General James A. Drain, Stephen Chadwick, Harry Colmery, Raymond J. Kelly, John R. Quinn, Louis Johnson, Paul McNutt.

3. Louis and Ruth Johnson's Residence, Clarksburg, W. Va.

IDNO:
053281
Title:
Louis and Ruth Johnson's Residence, Clarksburg, W. Va.
Date:
undated
Assistant Secretary of War Louis Johnson (center, bareheaded) attends the opening of an airline at the Harrison County Airport, now known as the Benedum Airport.

4. Assistant Secretary of War Louis Johnson at Harrison County Airport, Clarksburg, W. Va.

IDNO:
053271
Title:
Assistant Secretary of War Louis Johnson at Harrison County Airport, Clarksburg, W. Va.
Date:
1940/05
Description:
Assistant Secretary of War Louis Johnson (center, bareheaded) attends the opening of an airline at the Harrison County Airport, now known as the Benedum Airport.
Text on the back reads, "When Assistant Secretary of War, Col. Louis Johnson was famous as hard worker, hard driver. During preparations for important mission to aid India in fighting off Japanese, the telephone in his Washington apartment was seldom silent." Johnson served as the President's personal representative in India in 1942.

5. Colonel Louis Johnson Prepares to Travel to India, Washington, D. C.

IDNO:
053270
Title:
Colonel Louis Johnson Prepares to Travel to India, Washington, D. C.
Date:
ca. 1942
Description:
Text on the back reads, "When Assistant Secretary of War, Col. Louis Johnson was famous as hard worker, hard driver. During preparations for important mission to aid India in fighting off Japanese, the telephone in his Washington apartment was seldom silent." Johnson served as the President's personal representative in India in 1942.
President Roosevelt is shown posing in the presidential limousine in front of officers and an army aircraft with Assistant Secretary of the Navy Charles Edison (back of middle seat) and the Assistant Secretary of War Louis Johnson (beside Edison), among others. The president inspected aircraft at the Army's Bolling Field and the Naval Air Station.

6. President Roosevelt Inspects Army and Navy Aircraft, Washington, D. C.

IDNO:
053269
Title:
President Roosevelt Inspects Army and Navy Aircraft, Washington, D. C.
Date:
1938/10/29
Description:
President Roosevelt is shown posing in the presidential limousine in front of officers and an army aircraft with Assistant Secretary of the Navy Charles Edison (back of middle seat) and the Assistant Secretary of War Louis Johnson (beside Edison), among others. The president inspected aircraft at the Army's Bolling Field and the Naval Air Station.
Text on the back reads: "Charles Edison, Assistant Secretary of the Navy; President Roosevelt; and Louis Johnson, Assistant Secretary of War, as the President made an inspection of various types of aircraft at Army's Bolling Field and Naval Air Station."

7. President Roosevelt Inspects Army and Navy Aircraft, Washington, D. C.

IDNO:
053268
Title:
President Roosevelt Inspects Army and Navy Aircraft, Washington, D. C.
Date:
1938/10/29
Description:
Text on the back reads: "Charles Edison, Assistant Secretary of the Navy; President Roosevelt; and Louis Johnson, Assistant Secretary of War, as the President made an inspection of various types of aircraft at Army's Bolling Field and Naval Air Station."

8. Election of Louis Johnson as National Commander of the American Legion, Portland, Or.

IDNO:
053267
Title:
Election of Louis Johnson as National Commander of the American Legion, Portland, Or.
Date:
1932/09/15
President Franklin Roosevelt pictured with Secretary of State Cordell Hull, Assistant Secretary of Defense Louis A. Johnson, and an unidentified man.

9. President Roosevelt and Others

IDNO:
053264
Title:
President Roosevelt and Others
Date:
ca. 1940
Description:
President Franklin Roosevelt pictured with Secretary of State Cordell Hull, Assistant Secretary of Defense Louis A. Johnson, and an unidentified man.
The law school class of 1912 at the University of Virginia poses for a photograph on the steps of the Rotunda on the University's campus. Pictured in the upper left hand corner is Louis Johnson, later Secretary of Defense. Also pictured first row left to right: John Alan Maphis, Clarence Wagener, Col. H. Marbury Taylor, William N. Neff, and Dr. Samuel S. Irvin. Second Row: Seth Burnley, Judge C. K. Richards, Richard H. Akers, John B. Hyde, Dudley Bagley. Third Row: Col. Louis A. Johnson, Peyton Randolph Harris, E. Bradford Tazewell, Dr. Cary Jacob.

10. Fifty Year Reunion, University of Virginia Class of 1912

IDNO:
053261
Title:
Fifty Year Reunion, University of Virginia Class of 1912
Date:
1962/06/02
Description:
The law school class of 1912 at the University of Virginia poses for a photograph on the steps of the Rotunda on the University's campus. Pictured in the upper left hand corner is Louis Johnson, later Secretary of Defense. Also pictured first row left to right: John Alan Maphis, Clarence Wagener, Col. H. Marbury Taylor, William N. Neff, and Dr. Samuel S. Irvin. Second Row: Seth Burnley, Judge C. K. Richards, Richard H. Akers, John B. Hyde, Dudley Bagley. Third Row: Col. Louis A. Johnson, Peyton Randolph Harris, E. Bradford Tazewell, Dr. Cary Jacob.
Louis and Ruth Johnson at the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Class of 1912, pictured at the foot of the Rotunda steps at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville.

11. Louis and Ruth Johnson at University of Virginia

IDNO:
053244
Title:
Louis and Ruth Johnson at University of Virginia
Date:
1962/06
Description:
Louis and Ruth Johnson at the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Class of 1912, pictured at the foot of the Rotunda steps at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville.
Louis is pictured with his wife, Ruth. They married in 1920.

12. Louis Johnson and Ruth Frances Maxwell Johnson

IDNO:
053242
Title:
Louis Johnson and Ruth Frances Maxwell Johnson
Date:
ca. 1932
Description:
Louis is pictured with his wife, Ruth. They married in 1920.
Louis Johnson pictured in a car with his wife Ruth Frances Maxwell Johnson and his daughters Lillian Maxwell Johnson and Katherine Ruth Johnson, likely during his tenure as National Commander of the American Legion.

13. Louis Johnson With His Family

IDNO:
053241
Title:
Louis Johnson With His Family
Date:
ca. 1932
Description:
Louis Johnson pictured in a car with his wife Ruth Frances Maxwell Johnson and his daughters Lillian Maxwell Johnson and Katherine Ruth Johnson, likely during his tenure as National Commander of the American Legion.
Louis Johnson, National Commander of the American Legion, boards a United Air Lines flight from Cleveland to Chicago.

14. Legion Commander and Air Traveler

IDNO:
053239
Title:
Legion Commander and Air Traveler
Date:
ca. 1932
Description:
Louis Johnson, National Commander of the American Legion, boards a United Air Lines flight from Cleveland to Chicago.
A campaign poster promoting Louis Johnson for election to the West Virginia House of Delegates in the 1916 elections. The campaign was successful.

15. Louis Johnson Campaign Poster

IDNO:
053231
Title:
Louis Johnson Campaign Poster
Date:
1916
Description:
A campaign poster promoting Louis Johnson for election to the West Virginia House of Delegates in the 1916 elections. The campaign was successful.
A view of the Taj Mahal, showing wartime air raid protection measures on the central dome. The man is likely Louis Johnson.

16. The Taj Mahal

IDNO:
053220
Title:
The Taj Mahal
Date:
ca. 1942
Description:
A view of the Taj Mahal, showing wartime air raid protection measures on the central dome. The man is likely Louis Johnson.
Colonel Louis Johnson and Colonel Griffith with Indians at the tomb of Sheik Salim Chisti at Fatehpur Sikri, India.

17. Fatehpur Sikri, India

IDNO:
053218
Title:
Fatehpur Sikri, India
Date:
ca. 1942
Description:
Colonel Louis Johnson and Colonel Griffith with Indians at the tomb of Sheik Salim Chisti at Fatehpur Sikri, India.
Louis Johnson at the entrance to the Taj Mahal.

18. At the Taj Mahal

IDNO:
053216
Title:
At the Taj Mahal
Date:
ca. 1942
Description:
Louis Johnson at the entrance to the Taj Mahal.
Louis Johnson, then Assistant Secretary of War, leaves Texarkana in an army plane after giving a speech to the American Legion there.

19. Louis Johnson Leaving Texarkana

IDNO:
053208
Title:
Louis Johnson Leaving Texarkana
Date:
ca. 1937-1940
Description:
Louis Johnson, then Assistant Secretary of War, leaves Texarkana in an army plane after giving a speech to the American Legion there.
Louis Johnson, at that time Assistant Secretary of War, is pictured with a member of the Arkansas American Legion at an event at which he gave a speech.

20. Louis Johnson At American Legion Gathering, Texarkana, Texas

IDNO:
053207
Title:
Louis Johnson At American Legion Gathering, Texarkana, Texas
Date:
ca. 1937-1940
Description:
Louis Johnson, at that time Assistant Secretary of War, is pictured with a member of the Arkansas American Legion at an event at which he gave a speech.
Louis Johnson congratulates a fellow American League member at the national convention.

21. Louis Johnson at the 1945 American Legion Convention, Chicago, Ill.

IDNO:
053206
Title:
Louis Johnson at the 1945 American Legion Convention, Chicago, Ill.
Date:
1945/11/26
Description:
Louis Johnson congratulates a fellow American League member at the national convention.
A group portrait of those attending a luncheon honoring Mr. Wendell L. Willkie, the 1940 Republican nominee for the presidency, at Pelican Camp, part of the Bohemian Grove complex in California. Louis Johnson, later Secretary of Defense, is pictured seated on the far left, next to Willkie.

22. Luncheon Group, Pelican Camp, Bohemian Grove, California

IDNO:
053205
Title:
Luncheon Group, Pelican Camp, Bohemian Grove, California
Date:
1941/07/26
Description:
A group portrait of those attending a luncheon honoring Mr. Wendell L. Willkie, the 1940 Republican nominee for the presidency, at Pelican Camp, part of the Bohemian Grove complex in California. Louis Johnson, later Secretary of Defense, is pictured seated on the far left, next to Willkie.
Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson conducts an inspection and shopping trip at the Navy Ship's Store in Guam, also known as The Jade Shop.

23. At the Navy Ship's Store, Guam

IDNO:
053204
Title:
At the Navy Ship's Store, Guam
Date:
1950
Description:
Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson conducts an inspection and shopping trip at the Navy Ship's Store in Guam, also known as The Jade Shop.
Text on the back reads, "Swearing in ceremony of Under Secretary of the Army Stephen Ailes, held at the Pentagon, Washington, D. C. Former Secretary of Defense Louis A. Johnson congratulates Under Secretary of the Army and Mrs. Ailes."

24. Louis Johnson Congratulates Stephen and Mrs. Ailes

IDNO:
053203
Title:
Louis Johnson Congratulates Stephen and Mrs. Ailes
Date:
1961/02/27
Description:
Text on the back reads, "Swearing in ceremony of Under Secretary of the Army Stephen Ailes, held at the Pentagon, Washington, D. C. Former Secretary of Defense Louis A. Johnson congratulates Under Secretary of the Army and Mrs. Ailes."