When Truman was six, his parents moved to Independence, Missouri, so he could attend the Presbyterian Church Sunday School. They next moved to Belton and in 1887 to his grandparents' 600-acre (240 ha) farm in Grandview. The family lived in Lamar until Harry was ten months old, when they moved to a farm near Harrisonville, Missouri. John Truman was a farmer and livestock dealer. Truman's ancestry is primarily English with some Scots-Irish, German, and French. A brother, John Vivian, was born soon after Harry, followed by sister Mary Jane. Rather, it honors both his grandfathers, Anderson Shipp Truman and Solomon Young, a somewhat common practice in the American South. His middle initial, "S", is not an abbreviation of one particular name. He was named for his maternal uncle, Harrison "Harry" Young. Truman was born in Lamar, Missouri, on May 8, 1884, the oldest child of John Anderson Truman and Martha Ellen Young Truman. When he left office, Truman's administration was heavily criticized, though critical reassessment of his presidency has improved his reputation among historians and the general population. It was long thought that his retirement years were financially difficult for Truman, resulting in Congress establishing a pension for former presidents, but evidence eventually emerged that he amassed considerable wealth, some of it while still president. Truman went into a retirement marked by the founding of his presidential library and the publication of his memoirs. He was eligible for reelection in 1952, but with poor polling, he chose not to run. Investigations revealed corruption in parts of the Truman administration, and this became a major campaign issue in the 1952 presidential election, although they did not implicate Truman himself. Congress refused, so Truman issued Executive Order 9980 and Executive Order 9981, which prohibited discrimination in federal agencies and desegregated the U.S. In 1948, he proposed Congress pass comprehensive civil rights legislation. Domestically, the postwar economic challenges such as strikes and inflation created a mixed reaction over the effectiveness of his administration. With the involvement of the US in the Korean War of 1950–1953, South Korea repelled the invasion by North Korea. He oversaw the Berlin Airlift and Marshall Plan in 1948. Truman presided over the onset of the Cold War in 1947. Dewey that secured his own presidential term. He energized the New Deal coalition during the 1948 presidential election, despite a divided Democratic Party, and won a surprise victory against Republican Party nominee Thomas E. Truman's administration engaged in an internationalist foreign policy by working closely with Britain. Truman authorized the first and only use of nuclear weapons in war against the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It was only when Truman assumed the presidency that he was informed about the ongoing Manhattan Project and the atomic bomb.
Truman was elected vice president in the 1944 presidential election and assumed the presidency upon Roosevelt's death. Between 19, he gained national prominence as chairman of the Truman Committee, which was aimed at reducing waste and inefficiency in wartime contracts.
Truman was elected to the United States Senate from Missouri in 1934. Returning home, he opened a haberdashery in Kansas City, Missouri, and was elected as a judge of Jackson County in 1922. Truman was raised in Independence, Missouri, and during World War I fought in France as a captain in the Field Artillery. He proposed numerous liberal domestic reforms, but few were enacted by the conservative coalition that dominated the Congress. Assuming the presidency after Roosevelt's death, Truman implemented the Marshall Plan to rebuild the economy of Western Europe and established both the Truman Doctrine and NATO to contain the expansion of Soviet communism. Roosevelt and as a United States senator from Missouri from 1935 to January 1945. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as the 34th vice president from January to April 1945 under Franklin D. Truman (May 8, 1884 – December 26, 1972) was an American politician and farmer who served as the 33rd president of the United States, serving from 1945 to 1953. Truman Presidential Library and Museum, Independence, Missouri
Judge of Jackson County, Missouri's Eastern District Presiding Judge of Jackson County, Missouri
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