JohnsonFamily5-27-25 - Person Sheet
JohnsonFamily5-27-25 - Person Sheet
NameHarry S. Truman 
Birth8 May 1884, Lamar, Barton, MO
Death1972
FatherJohn Anderson Truman (1851-1914)
MotherMartha Ellen Young (1852-1947)
Notes for Harry S. Truman
33rd President, 1945-1953.
TRUMAN, Harry S., a Senator from Missouri, a Vice President, and a 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 on June 22, 1917, and later a captain, and served with Battery D, One Hundred and Twenty-ninth Field Artillery, United States Army, with service overseas, until his discharge as a major on May 6, 1919; colonel of Field Artillery, United States Army Reserve Corps, since 1927; 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; elected Vice [p.1934] President of the United States on the Democratic ticket with Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1944; inaugurated January 20, 1945, and upon the death of President Roosevelt, April 12, 1945, became President of the United States; elected in 1948 for the term ending January 20, 1953; is a legal resident of Independence, Mo.
TRUMAN, Harry S., a Senator from Missouri, a Vice President, and a 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 on June 22, 1917, and later a captain, and served with Battery D, One Hundred and Twenty-ninth Field Artillery, United States Army, with service overseas, until his discharge as a major on May 6, 1919; colonel of Field Artillery, United States Army Reserve Corps, since 1927; 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; elected Vice [p.1934] President of the United States on the Democratic ticket with Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1944; inaugurated January 20, 1945, and upon the death of President Roosevelt, April 12, 1945, became President of the United States; elected in 1948 for the term ending January 20, 1953; is a legal resident of Independence, Mo.