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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—Missouri TRUMAN, Harry S.(1884—1972)Senate Years of Service: 1935-1945Party: 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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Lectures and discussions held at Columbia University on April 27-29, 1959 . New York: Columbia University Press, 1960. Truman, Margaret. Harry S. Truman . 1973. Reprint. New York: Quill, 1984. ___, ed. Letters from Father: The Truman Family’s Personal Correspondence . New York: Arbor House, 1981. ___, ed. Where the Buck Stops: The Personal and Private Writings of Harry S. Truman . New York: Warner Books, 1989. Underhill, Robert. FDR and Harry: Unparalleled Lives . Westport, CT: Praeger, 1996. ___. The Truman Persuasions . Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1981. U.S. Congress. Memorial Services in the Congress of the United States and Tributes in Eulogy of Harry S. Truman, Late President of the United States . 93d Cong., 1st sess., 1973. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1973. Wilburn, Mark Steven. “Keeping the Powder Dry: Senator Harry S. Truman and Democratic Interventionism, 1935-1941.” Missouri Historical Review 84 (April 1990): 311-37. Willson, Roger Edward. “The Truman Committee.” Ph.D. dissertation, Harvard University, 1966. Wilson, Thomas D. “Chester A. Franklin and Harry S. Truman: An African-American Conservative and the ‘Conversion’ of a Future President.” Missouri Historical Review 88 (October 1993): 48-77. Yang, Matthew Yung-chun. “The Truman Committee.” Ph.D. dissertation, Harvard University, 1947. Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present |
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