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Harry Truman - 33rd President
Party: Democrat
Term: April 12, 1945 - Jan 20, 1953
Age at Inauguration: 60
Life Span: May 8, 1884 - December 26, 1972 [88]
Spouse: Bess Wallace - Age at Marriage: 35
Vice President: Alben Barkley

  • Truman was the third vice president for Franklin Roosevelt Vice President Harry Truman and served only a few months in 1945 before FDR died President Death in Office
  • In his bid for election in 1948, he was dubbed the looser in the election to Thomas Dewey as newspaper headlines read DEWEY WINS when in fact Truman was the winner
  • Once he declared all participants in an anticipated national rail road strike would be drafted into the armed services, and thus earned him the name "Give 'em hell Harry"
  • When bad reviews appeared in the press following his daughter Margaret's singing debut in new York, he threatened to punch the reviewer in the nose
  • After Congressman Adam Clayton Powell called Bess Truman, "The last lady of the United States," he was banned from the White House invitation list for the remainder of the Truman presidency
  • In 1950 it was discovered that one of his daughter's piano legs had broken through the floorboards on the second floor at the White House
  • The Truman's lived in Blair House until 1953 while the Mansion was renovated
  • While at Blair House an assassination attempt was made on the president Presidential Assassination Attempts
  • The President never removed his suit jacket while working from the Oval Office