Usher Burdick, Jane Wyman, Charlton Heston, and Others

Creator

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Date of Work

1955

Identification #

OGL21-36

Description

Various government figures and actors pose for a group photograph in 1955. From left to right: Walter Lee (Committee on the Judiciary), Representative Thomas Lane (Massachusetts), George Herbert (Assistant to the Mayor of Los Angeles), Representative Peter Rodino (New Jersey), Frank Freeman (Paramount Studios), Jane Wyman (Actress), Stephanie Miller (New York), Representative Edgar Jonas (Illinois), Charlton Heston (Actor), Representative William Miller (New York), Cy Brickfield (Committee on the Judiciary) and Representative Usher Burdick. (all names from the back of the photograph)

Usher Burdick had a long career in North Dakota politics and served in the North Dakota House of Representatives (1909-1911), as Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota (1911-1913), and in the United States House of Representatives (1935-1945 and 1949-1959).

People Depicted

Cy Brickfield, Usher Burdick, Frank Freeman, George Herbert, Charlton Heston, Edgar Jonas, Thomas Lane, Walter Lee, Stephanie Miller, William Miller, Peter Rodino, Jane Wyman

Rights

Elwyn B. Robinson Department of Special Collections, Chester Fritz Library, University of North Dakota