TRUMAN'S HISTORY          How Harry S. Truman became President of the United States, is one of America's most interesting stories. But it took Truman a while to get there and it's important to know his history. Harry S. Truman was born on May 8, 1884 in Lamar, Missouri. His father, John Anderson Truman and his mother Martha Ellen Young Truman were both Democrats. Young Truman grew up a farm boy. In 1901 Harry graduated from high school and had …showed first 75 words of 4197 total…

…showed last 75 words of 4197 total…And last, according to Ferrell, 'the presidential campaign of 1948 offered a single lesson that no candidate in subsequent years should have forgotten. That a candidate must himself be sincere; he must not merely possess some vision for what the country needs but believe in it and consider himself a- to use a seventeenth-century phrase well understood in Puritan theology- chosen instrument for that grand purpose. In that single respect Truman made a superb candidate.'15