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This is when Harry Truman was born. -
He attended a business college in Kansas City for a semester but, with his family's finances increasingly dire, dropped out of school and took a job in the mailroom of the Kansas City Star in the summer of 1902. Truman subsequently worked for a construction company and as a bank clerk. -
In 1906, Truman left his position at the bank and went to work on the family farm in Grandview, Missouri, with his father and his brother Vivian. Truman spent most of the next decade on the farm, though the farm itself rarely made much of a profit. -
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In 1917, with the United States on the verge of entering World War I, he rejoined his National Guard unit. After it was federalized, Harry Truman became a member of the 129th Artillery Regiment. -
Truman and his men saw their first action in the Vosges mountains (August 1918) -
In the Argonne's campaign (September and October 1918), the last major engagement of the war.
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He married Bess Wallace in 1919. -
Truman dotted and was a protective father to his daughter. -
In 1934, Truman asked Pendergast to support his run for a seat in the United States House of Representatives. Though the details of this episode are murky, Pendergast supposedly agreed initially but then changed his mind: he wanted Truman to run for the U.S. Senate. -
In 1944, President Roosevelt decided to drop Henry A. Wallace, his sitting vice president, from the Democratic ticket in the upcoming general election. -
He was vice president for 82 days before his predecessor's death. -
https://millercenter.org/president/truman/family-life
She and her son had a very close relationship. -
5th Re-election for the democratic party which was the longest streak for any party. -
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Margaret drops her musical career and marries Clifton Daniel. -
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He actively campaigned against Eisenhower in 1956. The personal relationship between the two men, already strained after Ike declared in 1952 that he would run for the Republican nomination, deteriorated throughout the eight years of Eisenhower's presidency. -
Upon its completion, Truman spent a good deal of time at his office there, until health concerns in the mid-1960s limited his mobility and forced him to remain at home. -
This is when Harry Truman died.
