Harry S. Truman

Governmental positions held by Harry S. Truman

Position	District Represented	Term
President of the United States	United States of America	1945 - 1953
Vice President of the United States	United States of America	1945 - 1945
United States Senator	Missouri	1935 - 1945

Harry S. Truman Image Gallery

Josef Stalin, Harry S. Truman and Winston Churchill in Potsdam, July 1945	Potsdam Conference: Clement Attlee, Ernest Bevin, Vyacheslav Molotov, Joseph Stalin, William Daniel ...
Sitting (from left): Clement Attlee, Harry S. Truman, Josef Stalin; behind: William Daniel Leahy, Er...	Truman was so widely expected to lose the 1948 election that the Chicago Tribune ran this incorrect ...
Truman in uniform ca. 1918	Official White House portrait of Harry S. Truman
Truman (seated right) and his wife Bess (behind him) attend the signing of the Medicare Bill on July...	President Truman signing a proclamation declaring a national emergency that initiates U.S. involveme...

Predecessor and Successor

Franklin D. Roosevelt

1933 - 1945

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Harry S. Truman

1945 - 1953

Dwight D. Eisenhower

1953 - 1961

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Vice president for Harry S. Truman

Alben W. Barkley

November 24, 1877 - April 30, 1956

Birthplace:Graves County

Education:University of Virginia, Emory University, University of Virginia School of Law, Oxford College of Emory University

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Presidential cabinet under Harry S. Truman

Cabinet Member	Position	Term
Fred M. Vinson	United States Secretary of the Treasury	1945-1946
John Wesley Snyder	United States Secretary of the Treasury	1946-1953
Dean Acheson	United States Secretary of State	1949-1953
George Marshall	United States Secretary of State	1947-1949
James F. Byrnes	United States Secretary of State	1945-1947
Charles F. Brannan	United States Secretary of Agriculture	1948-1953
James Forrestal	United States Secretary of Defense	1947-1949
Louis A. Johnson	United States Secretary of Defense	1949-1950
George Marshall	United States Secretary of Defense	1950-1951
Robert A. Lovett	United States Secretary of Defense	1951-1953

Other appointees of Harry S. Truman

Appointee	Position	Term
Roger Tubby	White House Press Secretary	1952-1953
Charles E. Wilson	United States Commission on Civil Rights	1951
Frederick Lawton	Director, United States Office of Management and Budget	1950-1953
Stephen Early	White House Press Secretary	1950-1950
Joseph Short	White House Press Secretary	1950-1952
Frank Pace	Director, United States Office of Management and Budget	1949-1950
Leonard A. Scheele	United States Surgeon General	1948-1956
James E. Webb	Director, United States Office of Management and Budget	1946-1949
Charles E. Wilson	Head of Office of Defense Mobilization	1946
John R. Steelman	White House Chief of Staff	1946-1952
Clark Clifford	White House Counsel	1946-1950
Charlie Ross	White House Press Secretary	1945-1950

Presidential elections involving Harry S. Truman

United States presidential election, 1948

Election date:November 2, 1948

Candidates in this Election

Candidate	Party
Harry S. Truman	Democratic Party
Strom Thurmond	Dixiecrat
Thomas E. Dewey	Republican Party

Books about Harry S. Truman

Harry Truman's Excellent Adventure: The True Story of a Great American Road Trip

Author:Matthew Algeo

Genre:Non-fiction

Places Harry S. Truman has lived

Map showing Places Lived by Harry S. Truman

Marker	Location	Population
A	Missouri	6,010,688
B	Independence	117,213

Frequently Asked Questions

Q:
Who was the Vice President for Harry S. Truman?
A:
Alben W. Barkley was the Vice President.
Q:
Under which President did Harry S. Truman serve?
A:
He was in office under President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Q:
In which church organization was Harry S. Truman a member?
A:
Harry S. Truman was in the Baptist religious denomination.
Q:
What was the cause of Harry S. Truman's death?
A:
He died from pneumonia.
Q:
What number was the U.S. Vice President, Harry S. Truman?
A:
He served under the 34th United States President.
Q:
What is Harry S. Truman quoted as saying?
A:
Noteworthy quotations include: "When a leader is in the Democratic Party he is a boss, and when he is in the Republican Party he is a leader."
Q:
Which academic institution did Harry S. Truman attend?
A:
Harry S. Truman studied at William Chrisman High School.
Q:
What Presidency number was the U.S. President, Harry S. Truman?
A:
He was the 33rd President of the United States of America.
Q:
Where was Harry S. Truman born?
A:
Harry S. Truman was born in Lamar.

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Quotes

We must build a new world, a far better world -- one in which the eternal dignity of man is respected.
- Harry S. Truman
Whenever you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.
- Harry S. Truman
The president is the representative of the whole nation and he's the only lobbyist that all the one hundred and sixty million people in the country have.
- Harry S. Truman

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