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White House Photographs
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Members of the Senate Ladies Red Cross Unit attend a luncheon in the Old Supreme Court Chamber, United States Capitol Building, Washington, D.C. The Red Cross unit (also known as “Ladies of the Senate”) is comprised of the wives of members of the US Senate. Left to right: Phyllis Ellsworth Dillon (wife of Secretary of the Treasury, C. Douglas Dillon); two unidentified women; Ivo Sparkman (wife of Senator John J. Sparkman of Alabama); Mary Katherine Babb Randolph (wife of Senator Jennings Randolph of West Virginia); Ellen Proxmire (wife of Senator William Proxmire of Wisconsin); unidentified; Nuala Pell (wife of Senator Claiborne Pell of Rhode Island); Abigail Quigley McCarthy (wife of Senator Eugene McCarthy of Minnesota); Frances Marion Grant Bennett (wife of Senator Wallace Bennett of Utah).