Harry S. Truman

A detailed Summary of Harry S. Truman

Harry S. Truman was born on May 8, 1884 in Lamar, Missouri.

John A. Truman sold and bought livestock form a lot adjacent to their

house when Harry was first born. When Harry was ten months old the

Trumans sold their house and stocklot to move to Harrisonville, Missouri.

From Harrisonville they moved to Belton, then to Grandview, and finally

settled in Independence, Missouri when Harry Truman was six years old.

President Truman was the oldest of three children and the only one born in

Lamar. His brother John Vivian, was born on April 25, 1885, at Belton,

Missouri and his sister, Mary Jane, was born August 12, 1889, in Grandview,

Missouri. Harry grew up on a farms all his life. he was forbidden to play

roughhouse games because of his glasses. He was a bookworm--a sissy, as

he said himself later on, using the dreaded word.

When Truman was six years old, his family moved to Independence,

Missouri, where he attended the Presbyterian Church Sunday school. There

he met five-year-old Elizabeth Virginia ("Bess") Wallace, with whom he was

later to fall in love. Truman did not begin regular school until he was eight,

1945 after being vice-president of the United States for only 82 days.

Kentucky, he was elected as a Democrat to the U.S. House of

Georgia), and the University of Virginia Law School. In 1901 he was

went to the local music teacher twice a week. He read four or five histories or

who was born in 1885 and died in 1982. While she lived in the White

and his mother Martha Ellen Young Truman. His siblings included his sister

9. Role of the President's First Lady

Harry Truman's first lady was Elizabeth Virginia Wallace Truman

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