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The 1914 Bloomington Bloomers baseball team poses for a team photo. The Three-I league was a semi-professional baseball league that ran during the summer months. Kneeling (l-r): Craig, outfielder; Jackson, outfielder; Settles, second base; Lister,…

Senator Scott W. Lucas poses for a portrait at his desk.

A political cartoon depicts Democratic Senator Harry F. Byrd as a knight holding a sword labeled "Budget Cut." Senator Scott Lucas, dressed as a British Beefeater attempts to proetect the "Government Spending" dragon from Byrd's sword by claiming,…

A Washington Star political cartoon depicts the "Pyramid Club" blocking President Harry S. Truman from skipping town for Florida and leaving Washington, D.C. in shambles. The "Pyramid Club" included U.S. Senators, Scott W. Lucas (Democrat), Kenneth…

A political cartoon depicts Senate Majority Leader Scott W. Lucas and House Minority Leader Sam Rayburn urgently gesturing behind a flag labeled "Administration Promises" frustrated by the gridlock and inaction taking place in the two houses of…

A political cartoon depicts Senate Majority Leader Scott W. Lucas sweating over John L. Lewis, American organized labor leader and United Mine Workers of America president (1920-1960), dumping a cat out of the "Period of Inaction" bag into the…

A political cartoon shows United State Senator Scott W. Lucas of Illinois hunting ducks and Senator Wayne Morse of Oregon in a car while a man stand next to him with a horse. Lucas was a lawyer and a politician who served in the United States House…

A political cartoon depicts former senator-turned-lobbyist Scott Lucas lobbying United States Senator Paul H. Douglas (Illinois). Lucas wears a hat with three large feathers in the band labeled "Federal Judgeships."Image signature: "With regards to…

A political cartoon depicts Senate Majority Leader Scott W. Lucas at odds with President Harry S. Truman over the repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act. Although Truman was opposed to an act that limited the power of labor unions, citing that it was…

Politicians Scott W. Lucas (2nd from left), Clyde Choate (far right), and two unidentified men meet with a coal miner inside an unknown coal mine.

Senator Scott W. Lucas (2nd from left) stands with Franklin C. Gowen (2nd from right) and an unidentified man between two soldiers of the Swiss Guard in a Vatican archway. Gowen served as the assistant to Myron C. Taylor, President Harry S. Truman's…

Chairman of the Illinois State Tax Commission Scott W. Lucas golfs with state auditors Edward J. Barrett, Ray Bergen, and John Stelle in French Lick, Indiana.

Edward J. Barrett sits for a portrait. Barrett, a veteran of World War I and World War II, served as County Clerk of Cook County and as Illinois Secretary of State from 1945 until 1953. Image signature, "To my friend, Senator Scott W. Lucas; With…

United States Senator James William Fulbright of Arkansas poses for a portrait wearing a pin striped suit.Photo signature: "To Scott Lucas, a good friend, a fine Senator and a fair golfer, with warm regards; Bill Fulbright U.S.S. Arkansas."

Scott W. Lucas smokes in his United States Senate office after his election in 1938.

American and British delegates, including (from left to right), G. H. Hall, Sol Bloom, Richard Law, Harold W. Dodds, [ ], and Scott W. Lucas, meet in Bermuda during the Second World War to discuss the issues involving Jewish refugees and the…

Senator Scott W. Lucas meets with Edward Bradach, Louis Wargo, and Joseph Teyshak, three navy servicemen who survived the sinking of the U.S.S. Lexington during the Battle of the Coral Sea in World War II. The message on the front of the photograph…

A political cartoon depicts Senate Majority Leader Scott W. Lucas riding the Democratic Party horse backwards, as he endorses both the "Economy and Heavy Spending." Image signature: "To Sen. Scott W. Lucas, with my best wishes, Carey Orr."

A political cartoon depicts Harry S. Truman, the 33rd President of the United States riding a hobby horse, whipping "White House stooges in Congress," Senate Majority Leader Scott W. Lucas and House Minority Leader Sam Rayburn. The Democratic donkey…

A political cartoon depicts Senate Majority Leader Scott W. Lucas trying to carry the load of the Truman administration, while the Democratic Party leadership begins to lose patience. Image signature: "To Sen. Scott Lucas, from Joe Parrish."

A uniformed Scott W. Lucas, in his capacity as Commander of the Illinois Department of the American Legion, stands between representatives of the Commander of the Grand Army of the Republic and the Commander of Confederate Veterans Union an American…

A Washington Daily News political cartoon depicts Congress as a sleeping man surrounded by a bag of fertilizer and "legislation seeds" and a shovel with a cobweb hanging from it. A lit match burns in the man's shoe representing Senate Majority Leader…

Phi Alpha Delta law fraternity members at Illinois Weslyan University pose for a group photo in front of their fraternity house.

Senator Scott Lucas (middle) stands with Walter Reuther (2nd from right), President of the United Auto Workers and the Congress of Industrial Organizations, and four unidentified men at the UAW-CIO Fish Fry in East Peoria.

Several Democratic senators attend a Senate luncheon for actress Greer Garson.Standing (l-r): Marion McIntyre, John H. Overton (Louisiana), Carl Hatch (New Mexico), James M. Mead (New York), Scott W. Lucas (Illinois), Walter F. George (Georgia), and…