harry s. truman

     

He's the only U.S. president in The Hall of Famous Missourians

Trivia about harry s. truman

  • The office & courtroom where this president began his career have been restored in Independence, MO.
  • "Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography" was co-written by Merle Miller & this man
  • He once said, "I have never given anybody hell. I just tell the truth...& they think it's hell"
  • Independence, Missouri
  • David McCullough won a 1993 Pulitzer for his biography of this Missouri-born president
  • He was "Haberdasher Harry"
  • He was the first U.S. president born in Missouri -- Lamar, Missouri, to be exact
  • The "Man From Missouri"
  • He was elected as a Missouri senator in 1934; 10 years later, he got a promotion
  • Communist forces invaded South Korea during his second term
  • In a 1951 speech he said, "What we are doing in Korea...is...trying to prevent a third world war"
  • In 1890, at age 6, he and his family moved to Independence, MO., his home for most of the rest of his life
  • In his will, he left a plot of land in Grandview, Missouri to his Masonic lodge
  • On August 1, 1946 this president signed the McMahon Act creating the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
  • His 1947 doctrine offered aid to Greece, which was threatened by a Communist insurrection
  • Now turning 60, the USAF was established in September 1947 under this Pres. with Carl Spaatz as Chief of Staff
  • This president's middle initial, "S", honored both of his grandfathers
  • In 1950 2 Puerto Rican nationalists made an attempt on this president's life
  • On January 8, 1947, he told Congress that "America was not built on fear. America was built on courage"
  • In 1951 this man commuted the sentence of his would-be assassin Oscar Collazo to life in prison
  • He was the "Man from Missouri" & the "Man of Independence"
  • He once said, "I'm just a politician from Missouri and proud of it"
  • FDR had 3 vice presidents, this Missourian being the last
  • His reaction to the North's invasion was "Dean, we've got to stop the blanks of blanks no matter what"
  • In Key West, site of his vacation home, the "Little White House", he favored loud print shirts like the one seen here
  • U.S. president whose middle initial "S" stood for nothing
  • 1945
  • Born in Missouri in 1884, according to his names, he was "Head of the House" & "A Faithful Man"
  • May 8, 1884 in Lamar, Missouri
  • In 1944 this victorious running mate sent FDR a telegram reading, "Isolationism is dead"
  • U.S. president who recognized the new state of Israel; first president Chaim Weizmann gave him a Torah
  • An amateur pianist, this President often entertained White House guests in the 1940s
  • He called himself "the plain people's pres. against the privileged people's Congress"
  • The only man with "man" in his last name to be U.S. president
  • In 1950 he threatened a music critic who had unkind words for daughter Margaret's singing
  • The 22nd Amendment, limiting a president to 2 terms, was ratified during this man's presidency
  • He owned a haberdashery in Kansas City, Missouri
  • This president lived in Blair House for 4 years while the White House underwent a $5.8 million renovation
  • His library in Independence, Missouri opened to the public in 1957
  • In 1947:Kenneth C. Royall
  • Both the U.N. Charter & the NATO Pact were signed by this president
  • Both he and Bess are buried in the courtyard of his Presidential Library in Independence, Missouri