- Thirty-third President (1945-1953)
- Birthday: May 8, 1884 (Thursday)
- Birthplace: Lamar Missouri
- Zodiac Sign: Taurus
- Date of Death: December 26, 1972 (Tuesday)
- Place of Death: Kansas City, Missouri
- Place of Burial: Harry S Truman Presidential Library and Museum, Independence, Missouri
- Cause of Death: lung congestion, heart irregularity, kidney blockage, digestive system failure, “afflictions of old age”
- Age: 88 years old
- Length of Retirement: 7280 days
- Religion: Baptist
- Party: Democrat
Harry S Truman Offices Held
- Vice President (1845-1845)
- Senator (1935-1945) from Missouri
Harry S Truman Nicknames
- Give ‘Em Hell Harry
- The Haberdasher
- Haberdasher Harry
Harry S Truman Pets
- Dogs (Feller “the unwanted Dog,” and Mike)
Harry S Truman Personal Traits
- Height: 5 feet – 9 inches
Harry S Truman Quotes
If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.
America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.
The reward of suffering is experience.
If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
It’s a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it’s a depression when you lose yours.
All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.
I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.
I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount.
You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.
A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.
Every political battle I have I fight with everything I’ve got, and when it’s over I get hold of my opponent we have a bourbon and branch ans say, “What can we do for the country?”
Children nowadays have too many gadgets to fool with and not enough chores.
I always tell students that it is what you learn after you know it all that counts.
Never use two words when one will do best.
Most of the senators who really apply themselves never get much attention in the headlines.
Once I had made the decision, I didn’t worry over it. If I made the wrong decision, I made another one to correct it.
Half the fun of being a citizen in this country comes from complaining about the way we run our government – state, federal, and local.
I was in search of a one-armed economist, so that the guy could never make a statement and then say: “on the other hand.”
The least government is the best government. We should have just as little as we can get along with.
I am trying to fix it so the people in the middle-income bracket can live as long as the very rich and the very poor.
There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.
No nation on this globe should be more internationally minded than America because it was built by all nations.
My definition of a leader in a free country is a man who can persuade people to do what they don’t want to do and like it.
Leadership is the art of getting other people to run with your ideal as if it were their own.
[Autograph seekers are] like pups who see a fire plug.
It only takes one nation to make war. But it takes two or more to make peace.
I never had enough money to play golf.
An honest public servent can’t become rich in politics.
I think there comes a time when every politician, whether he be in a county, state, or federal office, should retire. Most of them find it impossible to do that – they either have to be carried out feet first or kicked out.
I wonder how far Moses would have gone if he’d taken a poll in Egypt? What would Jesus Christ have preached if he’d taken a poll in the land of Israel? Where would the Reformation have gone if Martin Luther had taken a poll?
A man in his right mind would never want to be president if he knew what it entails. Aside from the impossible administrative burden, he has to take all sorts of abuse from liars and demagogues.
A yes-man on the White House staff or in the cabinet is worthless!
(On retirement from the Presidency) You can’t sit in the sun like other old men do.
Lies and mud make “news” – the truth and flowers do not.
It makes no difference what the papers say if you are right.
When the press stops abusing me, I’ll know I’m in the wrong pew.
All the religion I have found is in the Ten Commandments and The Sermon on the Mount.
There’s and old joke that the vice president’s principal chore is to get up in the morning and ask how the president is feeling.
The vice president simply presides over the Senate and sits around hoping for a funeral.
You don’t prevent anything by war except peace.
I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.
Boys, if you ever pray, pray for me now. I don’t know if you fellas ever had a load of hay fall on you, but when they told me what happened yesterday, I felt like the moon, the stars, and all the planets had fallen on me.(On finding out FDR had died and he was now President)
Harry S Truman Timeline – Family
- December 5, 1851 John Anderson Truman (Father) born in Jackson, Missouri.
- November 25, 1852 Martha Ellen Young Truman (Mother) born in Jackson County, Missouri.
- December 28, 1881 John Anderson Truman (Father) and Martha Ellen Young (Mother) marry in Grandview, Missouri.
- May 8, 1884 Harry S Truman is born in Lamar, Missouri.
- February 13, 1885 Bess Wallace Truman (Wife) born in Independence, Missouri.
- April 25, 1886 John Vivian Truman (Brother) born in Harrisonville, Missouri.
- August 12, 1889 Mary Jane Truman (Sister) born in Grandview, Missouri.
- November 3, 1914 John Anderson Truman (Father) dies in Kansas City, Missouri.
- June 28, 1919 Harry S Truman and Bess Wallace (Wife) marry in Independence, Missouri at Trinity Episcopal Church.
- February 17, 1924 Mary Margaret Truman Daniels (Daughter) born in Independence, Missouri.
- July 26, 1947 Martha Ellen Young Truman (Mother) dies in Grandview, Missouri.
- July 8, 1965 John Vivian Truman (Brother) dies in Grandview, Missouri.
- December 26, 1972 Harry S Truman dies in Kansas City, Missouri.
- November 3, 1978 Mary Jane Truman (Sister) dies in Grandview, Missouri.
- October 18, 1982 Bess Wallace Truman (Wife) dies in Independence, Missouri.
- January 29, 2008 Mary Margaret Truman Daniels (Daughter) dies in Chicago, Illinois.
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Harry S Truman Blogs
Eisenhower – Lunch with Cleveland’s Wife Frances - Forgetting what got you where you are at can almost be as bad as a famous general forgetting a famous former First Lady. 
Harry Truman – Becoming President - “Let all the earth fear the Lord: let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him.” Psalm 33:8 KJV He found out he was President when she told him the President was dead. There are giants in them there hills. These five awesome things are sprinkled throughout my life. 
Fun Presidential Facts – Harry S Truman - Here are some fun facts and personal opinions about President Harry S Truman 
Harry Truman: Retirement and the Former Presidents Act - "For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad be not with me? lest peradventure I see the evil that shall come on my father.” Genesis 44:34 KJV After all the ceremonies, his body guard took him to Union Station in Washington DC where he would board a train to head home. The ex-President was now, literally, just an average American. If I stayed there any longer, I knew I would feel the pain of their hand slipping out of mine. “Take me! Take me! I just can’t bear my father’s pain over the loss of another… 
List: What similiar trait do I have with Presidents Harding to LBJ - Harding, Coolidge, Hoover, FDR, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy and LBJ. These are the twenty-ninth through thirty-sixth Presidents. This is a list of how I think I am like them. 
Harry S Truman – Youngstown Sheet and Tube Workers Strike - “A man's pride shall bring him low: but honor shall uphold the humble in spirit.” Proverbs 29:23 KJV Their union decided that the only way to get the owners attention was to send the workers to the picket lines by calling a strike. Sometimes we fall hard when our pride gets the best of us. 
Harry S Truman – Meeting Billy Graham - “Take the rod, and gather thou the assembly together, thou, and Aaron thy brother, and speak ye unto the rock before their eyes; and it shall give forth his water, and thou shalt bring forth to them water out of the rock: so thou shalt give the congregation and their beasts drink.” Numbers 20:8 KJV He was an up and coming preacher and he might have even been a little full of himself. Three weeks later he was off to meet the President. 
Truman and Hoover: Working Together on a Food Crisis - Move over!James 3: 5-6 KJV Traffic congestion is one of those big things that really test your Christianity. So there you have it, two rival Presidents and two polar opposite disciples, who are very unlikely partners, working together for the better.