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Harry S. Truman(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 served as a United States senatorfrom Missourifrom 1935 to 1945 and briefly in 1945 as the 34th vice presidentunder Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Harry S. Truman 's tenure as the 33rd president of the United States began on April 12, 1945, upon the death of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and ended on January 20, 1953. He had been vice president for only 82 days when he succeeded to the presidency. Truman, a Democrat from Missouri, ran for and won a full four-year term in the 1948 ...
The 1948 United States presidential election was the 41st quadrennial presidential election.It was held on Tuesday, November 2, 1948. In one of the greatest election upsets in American history, [2] [3] [4] incumbent Democratic President Harry S. Truman defeated heavily favored Republican New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey, and third-party candidates, becoming the third president to succeed to ...
July 20, 1948: President Truman issued the second peacetime military draft in the United States amid increasing tensions with the Soviet Union. July 26, 1948: Turnip Day Session begins, mandated by Truman on July 15, 1948; President Truman signed Executive Order 9981, ending racial segregation in the United States Armed Forces.
Electoral history prior to 1934. Before 1934, Truman ran four times for various administrative judgeships in Jackson County, Missouri. In 1922, Truman won the Democratic Party Primary election and general election for Eastern Judge of Jackson County. In 1924, Truman won the Democratic Party Primary election but lost the general election for ...
Since the office was established in 1789, 45 men have served in 46 presidencies. The first president, George Washington, won a unanimous vote of the Electoral College. [4] Grover Cleveland served two non-consecutive terms and is therefore counted as the 22nd and 24th president of the United States, giving rise to the discrepancy between the ...
1948 Democratic National Convention. The 1948 Democratic National Convention was held at Philadelphia Convention Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from July 12 to July 15, 1948, and resulted in the nominations of President Harry S. Truman for a full term and Senator Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky for vice president in the 1948 presidential ...
The 1946 United States elections were held on November 5, 1946, and elected the members of the 80th United States Congress. In the first election after World War II, incumbent President Harry S. Truman (who took office on April 12, 1945, upon the death of his predecessor, Franklin D. Roosevelt) and the Democratic Party suffered large losses.