President Harry S. Truman was born on May 8, 1884 in Independence Missouri… he grew up there and for 12 years made his living as a farmer. His middle name was actually the letter “S”
After graduating from Independence High School in 1901 he then worked as a timekeeper on the Santa Fe Railroad, he slept in hobo camps, then worked at a few minimal jobs and returned to Grandview Farm in 1906 where he remained until entering the army in 1917. During this time he courted Bess Wallace and proposed in 1911, she shot him down and he said he wanted to make more money than a farmer before he proposed again.
He enlisted in the Missouri National Guard in 1905 and served till 1911 during his physical his eye sight had been 20/50 in the right eye and 20/40 in the left which was highly unacceptable… he supposedly passed by memorizing the eye chart exam.
He was active in the Democratic Party and was elected a judge of the Jackson County Court in 1922 he became a senator in 1934 During WWII he headed the senate war investigating committee there he checked waste and corruption and possibly saved the U.S. 15 billion dollars
He became President on April 12 1945, while president he had to make many difficult decisions, nit limited to but including, dropping the atomic bombs on Japan, signing the charter of the United Nations. So far he had been hollowing in FDR’s foot step then he started to break away by presenting his 21-point program to congress, asking that the expansion of social security, a full employment program and a permanent Fair Employment Practice this became known as the “Fair Deal”
He also had a few run ins with foreign crisis’ when the USSR blockaded the western parts of Berlin he created a massive airlift to supply the people until the blockaded was lifted. He also in 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea he prompted his military advisors that they could not just let this go. He and the UN sent troops in. It was a long and discouraging struggle and Truman pulled out, rather than risk a war with China and possibly the USSR. He decided not to run again and retired and went back home to Missouri.
He Died on December 26, 1972 at age 88. 
http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/harrystruman
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_S._Truman#Personal_life
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