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I love those phones.

"...member of the U.S. House of Representatives and the United States Senate from Paducah, Kentucky, majority leader of the Senate, and the 35th Vice President of the United States." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alben_W._Barkley

At the trivial level, the negative number etched here is 2680-2. You will notice that Alben Barkley is sitting at the same desk upon which sits the same telephone as that used by Miss Genevieve Clark, adjacent in this photostream, and which also has the consecutive negative number 2680-3: www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/3295498512/

He coined "veep" as a nickname for "vice president."

the reversed writing upper left says Cong Barkley so this would be pre-senate

See

William Robert ("Sawney") Webb (1842-1926), United States Senator (D) from Tennessee; 62d Congress (1913-1913). Grandson of Rep. Richard Stanford. Enlisted in Confederate Army; returned to North Carolina in 1865; graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1868. Founded the Webb School, a preparatory school, at Culleoka, Tenn., in 1870; moved the school to Bell Buckle, Tenn., in 1886; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Robert L. Taylor and served for 39 days from January 24, 1913, to March 3, 1913; was not a candidate for reelection in 1913. –more... Wikipedia

Thanks for the information Pixel Wrangler. We'll clarify the name in the title, and add the year he served to the date when we update the record.

I added the photo: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_R._Webb