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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—Missouri / USHarry S. TRUMAN
(1884-1972)
Senate Years of Service:
1935-1945Party: DemocratTRUMAN, Harry S., a
Senator from Missouri, a Vice President, and Thirty-third President
of the United States; born in Lamar, Barton County, Mo., May 8,
1884; moved with his parents to a farm in Jackson County, Mo., in
1888; attended the public schools in Independence, Mo.; engaged in
agricultural pursuits; during the First World War was commissioned
a first lieutenant, later a captain, and served with Battery D, One
Hundred and Twenty-ninth Field Artillery, United States Army, with
service overseas; discharged as a major in 1919; colonel of Field
Artillery, United States Army Reserve Corps 1927-1945; engaged in
the haberdashery business 1919-1921; studied law at Kansas City
(Mo.) Law School; judge of the Jackson County Court 1922-1924, and
presiding judge 1926-1934; elected as a Democrat to the United
States Senate in 1934; reelected in 1940 and served from January 3,
1935, until his resignation on January 17, 1945; chairman, Special
Committee to Investigate the National Defense Program
(Seventy-seventh and Seventy-eighth Congresses), formed at
Truman’s initiative and widely known as the “Truman
Committee,” which called nationwide attention to military
contracting procedures; elected Vice President of the United States
on the Democratic ticket with Franklin Roosevelt in 1944, and
inaugurated on January 20, 1945; upon the death of President
Roosevelt on April 12, 1945, became President of the United States;
elected in 1948 for the term ending January 20, 1953; was not a
candidate for reelection in 1952; returned to his home in
Independence, Mo.; engaged in writing his memoirs and took an
active interest in the creation of the Truman Library; died in
Kansas City, Mo., December 26, 1972; interment in the Rose Garden
at the Truman Library, Independence, Mo.
Bibliography
American National Biography; Dictionary of American
Biography; The Yale Biographical Dictionary of American
Law; Hamby, Alonzo L. Man of the People: A Life of Harry S.
Truman. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995; McCullough,
David. Truman. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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