Submitted by ke4ktza on Sat, 03/21/2009 - 08:53
Harry S. Truman
33rd President of the United States
(April 12, 1945 to January 20, 1953)
Nickname: "Give 'Em Hell Harry"
Born: May 8, 1884, in Lamar, Missouri
Died: December 26, 1972, in Kansas City, Missouri
Father: John Anderson Truman
Mother: Martha Ellen Young Truman
Married: Elizabeth "Bess" Virginia Wallace (1885-1982), on June 28, 1919
Children: Mary Margaret Truman (1924- )
Religion: Baptist
Education: Attended the University of Kansas City Law School
Occupation: Farmer, public official
Political Party: Democrat
Other Government Positions:
- Judge on Jackson County Court, 1922-24
- Presiding Judge of Jackson County Court, 1926-34
- United States Senator, 1935-45
- Vice President, 1945 (under F.D. Roosevelt)
Presidential Salary: $75,000/year (increased to $100,000 + $50,000 expense account in 1949)
Vice President: Alben W. Barkley (1949-53)
Cabinet:
- Secretary of State
- Edward R. Stettinius, Jr. (1945)
- James F. Byrnes (1945-47)
- George C. Marshall (1947-49)
- Dean G. Acheson (1949-53)
- Secretary of the Treasury
- Henry Morgenthau, Jr. (1945)
- Frederick M. Vinson (1945-46)
- John W. Snyder (1946-53)
- Secretary of War
- Henry L. Stimson (1945)
- Robert P. Patterson (1945-47)
- Kenneth C. Royall (1947)
- Secretary of Defense
- James V. Forrestal (1947-49)
- Louis A. Johnson (1949-50)
- George C. Marshall (1950-51)
- Robert A. Lovett (1951-53)
- Attorney General
- Francis B. Biddle (1945)
- Thomas C. Clark (1945-49)
- J. Howard McGrath (1949-52)
- Postmaster General
- Frank C. Walker (1945)
- Robert E. Hannegan (1945-47)
- Jesse M. Donaldson (1947-53)
- Secretary of the Navy
- James V. Forrestal (1945-47)
- Secretary of the Interior
- Harold L. Ickes (1945-46)
- Julius A. Krug (1946-49)
- Oscar L. Chapman (1950-53)
- Secretary of Agriculture
- Claude R. Wickard (1945)
- Clinton P. Anderson (1945-48)
- Charles F. Brannan (1948-53)
- Secretary of Commerce
- Henry A. Wallace (1945-46)
- William Averell Harriman (1946-48)
- Charles Sawyer (1948-53)
- Secretary of Labor
- Frances Perkins (1945)
- Lewis B. Schwellenbach (1945-48)
- Maurice J. Tobin (1949-53)