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Truman, Harry S.

Born
5/8/1884
Birthplace
Lamar, Missouri
Titles and Honors
Victory WW I - Promoted to Captain then Major
1922 Judge of Jackson County, Missouri
1926-1934 Presiding County judge
1934 U.S. Senate Reelected in 1940
1941-1944 Chairman -Senate Committee to Investigate the National Defense Program
1944 Vice President with F.D. Roosevelt
4/12/1945-1/20/1953 33rd U.S. President
8/6/1945 Ordered Atomic Bomb dropped on Hiroshima
8/9/1945 Ordered Atomic Bomb dropped on Nagasaki
1947 Truman Doctrine - Opposed Russian expansion in Europe
6/1950 Military sent in defense of South Korea
Notes
Grew up on a farm in Independence Missouri
The 'S' in his name doesn't stand for anything
Occupation
Judge, Politican
Publications
Memoires: Vol. I Year of Decision 1955
Vol II Years of Trial and Hope 1956
Father
John Anderson Truman
Mother
Martha Ellen Young
Spouse
Elizabeth Virginia Wallace, m. 1919,
Children
Mary Margaret
Nationality
American

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