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    Harry S. Truman

    President of the United States from 1945 to 1953

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    • Harry S. Truman’s Early Years. Harry S. Truman was born on May 8, 1884, in the farm community of Lamar, Missouri, to John Truman (1851-1914), a livestock trader, and Martha Young Truman (1852-1947).
    • From County Judge to U.S. Vice President. In 1922, Harry Truman, with the backing of Kansas City political boss Thomas Pendergast (1873-1945), was elected district judge in Jackson County, Missouri, an administrative position that involved handling the county’s finances, public works projects and other affairs.
    • Franklin D. Roosevelt Dies In Office. In 1944, as Roosevelt sought an unprecedented fourth term as president, Truman was selected as his running mate, replacing Vice President Henry Wallace (1888-1965), a divisive figure in the Democratic Party.
    • Harry S. Truman’s First Administration: 1945-1949. Upon assuming the presidency, Harry Truman, who had met privately with Roosevelt only a few times before his death and had never been informed by the president about the construction of the atomic bomb, faced a series of monumental challenges and decisions.
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  3. Officers' Reserve Corps. Officers of the 129th Field Artillery, at regimental headquarters at Chateau le Chanay near Courcemont, France, March 1919. Captain Harry S. Truman is pictured in the second row, third from the right. Truman was honorably discharged from the Army as a captain on May 6, 1919. [64]

  4. Explore More Portraits. Upon learning of Franklin Roosevelt’s death on April 12, 1945, Harry Truman said he felt as if “the moon, and the stars and all the planets” had fallen on him. That summer, he faced the daunting task of ending the war in the Pacific and negotiating with an increasingly belligerent Soviet Union.

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