Harry S. Truman
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 Harry S. Truman facts

• Truman (May 8, 1884 – December 26, 1972) was an American politician who served as the 33rd President of the United States (1945–53)
• He served as a United States Senator from Missouri (1935–45) and briefly as Vice President (1945) before he s쳮ded to the presidency on April 12, 1945 upon the death of Franklin D
• Roosevelt
• He was president during the final months of World War II, and approved the plan to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
• Truman was elected in his own right in 1948
• He presided over an uncertain domestic scene as America sought its path after the war and tensions with the Soviet Union increased, marking the start of the Cold War
• Truman was born in Lamar, Missouri, and spent most of his youth on his family's 600-acre farm near Independence
• In the last months of World War I, he served in combat in France as an artillery officer with his National Guard unit
• After the war, he briefly owned a haberdashery in Kansas City, Missouri, and joined the Democratic Party and the political machine of Tom Pendergast
• Truman was first elected to public office as a county official in 1922, and then as a U