Alben Barkley

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Alben Barkley, a distinguished alumnus of Oxford College, speaks on campus around 1950. Barkley, a native of Kentucky, became vice president of the United States under Harry S. Truman in 1948.

Courtesy of Georgia Archives, Vanishing Georgia, #
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