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  1. 2 days ago · Harry S. Truman. Harry S. Truman [b] (May 8, 1884 – December 26, 1972) was the 33rd president of the United States, serving from 1945 to 1953. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as a United States senator from Missouri from 1935 to 1945 and briefly as the 34th vice president in 1945 under Franklin D. Roosevelt.

  2. 5 days ago · Truman, who was 67 when he decided not to seek another term, and Johnson, who was 59, withdrew from their respective races in the middle of primary season, as they struggled to find a way to end ...

  3. 2 days ago · INDEPENDENCE, Mo. — As a veteran, senator and short-lived vice president, President Harry S. Truman was known for his wartime decisions and promise of support to nations fighting Soviet control ...

  4. 2 days ago · Truman became president in April 1945, less than three months after he was sworn in as vice president, when Franklin D. Roosevelt died of a cerebral hemorrhage. In the 1948 election, Truman ...

  5. 2 days ago · Harry S. Truman - Korean War, 33rd US President, Cold War: In June 1950 military forces of communist North Korea suddenly plunged southward across the 38th parallel boundary in an attempt to seize noncommunist South Korea.

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  6. 4 days ago · Harry S. Truman drops bid for reelection. The 33rd president was born in Missouri in 1884, making him 67 when he decided not to run for a third term in March 1952.. Truman was the last president ...

  7. 4 days ago · The incumbent in 1952, Harry Truman. His second term expired at noon on January 20, 1953. Stevenson emerged victorious on the third presidential ballot of the 1952 Democratic National Convention by defeating Tennessee Senator Estes Kefauver, Georgia Senator Richard Russell Jr., and other candidates.

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