Harry S. Truman became President of the United States with the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt on April 12, 1945.Nobody in either party, not a professional politician, not a reporter, not even his own mother-in-law doubted that Tom Dewey would be the next president. The result of a Newsweek poll of fifty top political commentators nationwide who were asked to predict the outcome was Dewey 50, Truman 0.Who was Truman? He was a child of Missouri. Born on May 8, 1884, in the town of Lamar, grew up in Independence, only ten miles east of Kansas City. As a child he used to devoure history books and literature, played the piano enthusiastically, and dreamed of becoming a great soldier. Truman instead of attending a four-year college because of financial problems, worked on his family farm between 1906 and 1914. he wed in 1919 after romantic adventures with Virginia “Bess” Wallace and five years later had their first and only child, Mary Margaret.In 1914, after his father’s death, Truman tried unsuccessfully to earn a living as an owner and operator of a small mining company and oil business, all the while remaining involved with the farm. In 1917, Truman’s National Guard… Read full this story
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