Education:
Attended the University of Kansas City Law
School
Occupation:
Farmer, public official
Religion:
Baptist
Wife:
Elizabeth "Bess" Virginia Wallace (1885-1982),
on June 28, 1919
Children:
Mary Margaret Truman (1924- )
Father:
John
Anderson Truman
Mother:
Martha Ellen Young Truman
Years in
office:
(April 12, 1945 to January 20, 1953)
Born:
May 8,
1884, in Lamar, Missouri
Died:
December 26, 1972, in Kansas City, Missouri
Age at
death:
88
Elected
from:
Missouri
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)
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)
Links /
Resources:
The White
House
PO Box 1427