Harry S. Truman

Title: Harry S. Truman
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Harry S. Truman

Harry S. Truman (1884-1972) was the 33rd president of the United States. He was born in Lamar, Missouri on May 8, 1884. He was the oldest of three kids of John Anderson and Martha Ellen Young Truman. There is something interesting about the "S" in Truman's name. His family did not want to choose between his grandfathers names - Anderson Shippe Truman and Solomon Young, so they just made the "S" his middle name. In 1890, the Trumans moved to …showed first 75 words of 3820 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 3820 total…blamed him for the things happening in the US, he did not give up or put his head down. He felt like he had to go on. "When Franklin Roosevelt died," Truman said, "I felt there must be a million men better qualified than I, to take up the Presidential task. But the work was mine to do, and I had to do it. And I tried to give it everything that was in me."

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