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Truman reiterated many of them in this address since control of the Congress had shifted in the 1948 United States elections to Truman's Democratic Party. The domestic-policy proposals that Truman offered in this speech were wide-ranging and included the following: [1] [2] federal aid to education; a tax cut for low-income earners
November 9 – President Truman signs a tax reduction bill of US$5,920,000,000. [113] November 13 – President Truman sends a message to Congress on American involvement in regards to the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. [114]
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 number of presidencies and the number of individuals who have served as president. [5]
State voters chose 25 electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Ohio was narrowly won by Democratic Party candidate, incumbent President Harry S. Truman with 49.48% of the popular vote. Republican Party candidate Thomas E. Dewey received 49.24% of the popular vote.
Debate on Ohio’s income tax should confront this irony: The GOP-run legislature OK’d Ohio’s state income tax in 1971, at Democratic Gov. John J. Gilligan’s behest, only because of “yes ...
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 assumed the presidency after Franklin D. Roosevelt's death, as he was vice president at the time.
President: Harry S. Truman: Preceded by: W. Averell Harriman: Succeeded by: Sinclair Weeks: United States Ambassador to Belgium; In office November 8, 1944 – November 20, 1945: President: Franklin D. Roosevelt: Preceded by: Ernest de Wael Mayer (Acting) Succeeded by: Alan G. Kirk: United States Ambassador to Luxembourg; In office November 1 ...
President Truman signing a proclamation declaring a national emergency and authorizing U.S. entry into the Korean War President Truman (right) and General Douglas MacArthur at Wake Island, October 1950. Following World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union occupied Korea, which had been a colony of the Japanese Empire.