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Harry S. Truman

1884 - 1972

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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. As the 34th vice president in 1945, he assumed the presidency upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt that year. Subsequently, Truman implemented the Marshall Plan in the aftermath of World War II to rebuild the economy of Western Europe, and established both the Truman Doctrine and NATO to contain the expansion of Soviet communism. A member of the Democratic Party, he proposed numerous New Deal coalition liberal domestic reforms, but few were enacted by the conservative coalition that dominated the United States Congress. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Harry S. Truman is the 185th most popular politician (down from 113th in 2019), the 56th most popular biography from United States (down from 43rd in 2019) and the 20th most popular American Politician.

Harry S. Truman is most famous for being the 33rd president of the United States, for leading the country through World War II and the Korean War, and for overseeing the end of World War II.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Harry S. Truman ranks 185 out of 19,576. Before him are Ecgberht, King of Wessex, Baldwin IV of Jerusalem, Domitian, Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, Bayezid II, and Bayezid I. After him are Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Christina, Queen of Sweden, Murad I, Christian IX of Denmark, Puyi, and Simón Bolívar.

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Among people born in 1884, Harry S. Truman ranks 2. Before him is Eleanor Roosevelt. After him are Amedeo Modigliani, Hideki Tojo, Isoroku Yamamoto, Edvard Beneš, İsmet İnönü, Bronisław Malinowski, Édouard Daladier, Peter Debye, Max Brod, and Walther von Reichenau. Among people deceased in 1972, Harry S. Truman ranks 2. Before him is Edward VIII. After him are Maria Goeppert Mayer, Ip Man, Frederick IX of Denmark, Ezra Pound, Yasunari Kawabata, M. C. Escher, Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi, Neilia Hunter Biden, Kwame Nkrumah, and Paul-Henri Spaak.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Harry S. Truman ranks 56 out of 20,380. Before him are George Marshall (1880), Mark Twain (1835), Aretha Franklin (1942), Janis Joplin (1943), Robert De Niro (1943), and John Wilkes Booth (1838). After him are Joan Baez (1941), Howard Hughes (1905), Robert Frost (1874), Wallis Simpson (1896), James Watson (1928), and Andy Warhol (1928).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Harry S. Truman ranks 20. Before him are Joe Biden (1942), Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882), Benjamin Franklin (1706), Al Gore (1948), George W. Bush (1946), and George Marshall (1880). After him are Bill Clinton (1946), Richard Nixon (1913), Bhumibol Adulyadej (1927), George H. W. Bush (1924), Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890), and Barbara Bush (1925).

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