Missouri Road Trip Harry Truman Points of Interest Every Hero Has A Story: J Truman served in the Missouri National Guard from 1905-11. ark Twain and Walt Disney might be By 1944, Truman foreign policy and civil J Truman was an artillery officer in France during World War I. more well-known around the world, was nominated rights issues. One of but only one Missourian has ever to serve as vice his executive orders J Although he often used a period with his middle initial, the S in Harry S. M been elected to the top job in the United States. president under desegregated the Truman doesn’t actually stand for a full name. Franklin D. armed forces, while Harry S. Truman was born in Lamar, Mo., in 1884, J The Chicago Daily Tribune incorrectly announced the winner of the 1948 but he’s most often associated with Independence, Roosevelt. He was another forbade racial election in its first edition headline “Dewey Defeats Truman.” A press strike the state’s fourth-largest city and the place he vice president discrimination in federal had forced the newspaper to print early using poll predictions. A photograph called home. for just three employment. of the winner, Harry Truman, holding that newspaper ensured the mistake months before was preserved for history. Truman once operated a clothing shop in Kansas When it came time being sworn in for Truman to seek J Learn more about Truman’s hometown in the community newspaper, The City, but ultimately had a remarkable political as president, Examiner, examiner.net, and his birthplace Lamar, in The Lamar Democrat, career that led to the White House. After serving re-election in 1948, following the straight-forward LamarDemocrat.com. most of the 1920s and early 1930s as a county Roosevelt’s death Missourian, known for J Read more about Harry Truman on The State commissioner in Jackson County, Truman was in 1945. elected to the U.S. Senate in 1934. phrases such as “The Historical Society of Missouri’s Historic After guiding Buck Stops Here,” was Missourians site, shs.umsystem.edu. America through considered to be a long Sources: Harry S. Truman Library, Hall of Famous Missourians the end of World shot. He won and served War II, and four more years before making the decision to use nuclear weapons to retiring to Independence in 1953. Harry Truman end the war against Japan, Truman focused on died Dec. 26, 1972.

The Harry S. Truman Library and Museum Take A Road Trip to Independence! 500 W US Hwy 24, Today, Independence embraces its favorite son in a variety mile path – said to be Truman’s favorite walking route – provide information Independence of ways. The Harry S. Truman Library and Museum is home about Truman and the city of Independence. That small home in Lamar is (816) 268-8200 trumanlibrary.org to a variety of exhibits, including a model Oval Office, and today referred to as the Harry S. Truman Birthplace State Historic Site. an amazing collection of Truman’s papers. Truman’s home It’s another place you can visit and connect with Missouri’s most famous in Independence is an official National Historic Site, as is his political figure. family farm property near Grandview. As you stroll around Independence, you literally can follow in Truman’s footsteps. In his retirement years, Truman was known for taking long walks ©2015, Missouri Press Foundation around the city. Today, commemorative plaques on sidewalks along a 2.7-