credit: Franklin D. Roosevelt Library Photo Collection
President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Servicemen's Readjustment Act, better known as the G.I. Bill of Rights, on June 22, 1944. Surrounding him are (left to right): Senator Bennett Clark (D-MO); Representatives J. Hardin Peterson (D-FL), John Rankin (D-MS), and Edith N. Rogers (R-MA); J. M. Sullivan; Senator Walter George (D-GA); John Stelle; Senators Robert Wagner (D-NY), Scott Lucas (D-IL), and Alben Barkley (D-KY).
