Photo From the Attic: Queen for a Day - Roll Call

Photo From the Attic: Queen for a Day

By Roll Call Staff

Posted March 2, 2011 at 5:23pm

Senate Majority Leader Alben Barkley (D-Ky.) crowns Peggy Townsend the queen of the Cherry Blossom Festival in Potomac Park on March 31, 1939.

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