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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MissouriTRUMAN, Harry S.
(1884—1972)
Senate Years of Service:
1935-1945
Party:
Democrat
TRUMAN, 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.
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. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1945.
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. 1974. Reprint. New York: Greenwich House, 1985.
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. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1986.
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. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1984.
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. Boston: Little, Brown Co., 1982.
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. Jefferson City, MO: Hawthorn Publishing Co., 1948.
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. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1964.
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. New York: Willliam Morrow Co., 1979.
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. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1980.
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. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1962.
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. New York: R.R. Smith, 1947.
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. 2 vols. 1955-1956. Reprint. New York: Da Capo Press, 1986-1987.
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. New York: Geis Associates, 1960.
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. New York: Columbia University Press, 1960.
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. 1973. Reprint. New York: Quill, 1984.
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. New York: Arbor House, 1981.
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. New York: Warner Books, 1989.
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. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1981.
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. 93d Cong., 1st sess., 1973. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1973.
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Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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