Who is Harry Truman?

Harry S. Truman was born on May 8, 1884, to John & Martha Truman. He is the only president in recent history to not have a college degree. When the U.S. entered World War I in 1917, young Harry re-entered the Missouri National Guard, where he had previously served in an artillery unit. When the U.S. entered World War I in 1917, young Harry re-entered the Missouri National Guard, where he had previously served in an artillery unit. Truman served only eighty-two days in the vice presidency. On the afternoon of April 12, 1945, he was summoned to the White House. Upon arrival, Eleanor Roosevelt approached him and said, “Harry, the president is dead.” Within hours, Harry S. Truman took the oath of office to become the thirty-third President of the United States. The threat of communism continued to be a major focus of Truman’s second administration. The president supported the creation in 1949 of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, a military alliance of democratic nations, including the United States, Canada, France, the United Kingdom and eight other countries, and appointed Dwight Eisenhower (1890-1969) as its first commander.

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