Indiana legislature appropriates two and one-half million dollars for three new buildings to house the national headquarters of The American Legion, 1945.

Indiana legislature appropriates two and one-half million dollars for three new buildings to house the national headquarters of The American Legion, 1945.

American Legion ; National Headquarters

New Service caption: The above photographs showing a momentous event in Legion history in which the Indiana legislature appropriated to and one-half million dollars for three new buildings to house the National Headquarters of The American Legion and its affiliates on the Indiana War Memorial Plaza in Indianapolis.[...] The group picture shows some of the key Hoosier Legionnaires who worked for passage of the measure to appropriate funds for the new National Headquarters buildings. They are, front row, left to right: Indiana State Legion Commander WIlliam E. Brown; Governer Ralph F. Gates, past department Legion commander; Indiana Department Executive Committeeman V. M. Armstrong, and Secretary of the Board of Trustees of the Memorial Plaza, Frank H. Henley. Back row, left to right: State Legion Legislative Chairman Robert J. Gaskill; National Legion Judge Advocate Ralph B. Gregg; Joe Rand Beckett, Legionnaire member of the Study Committee appointed by the legislature; William E. Jenner, World War II LEgionnaire and liaison man for the Governor; Representative Robert A. Hoover, co-author of the bill, and Frank A. White, Hoosier Legionnaire editor, who mobilized newspaper support.

American Legion Archives Photo Collection (photo no. 13557).

1945

Photo; 4.5 x 6.5

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