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Elizabeth Virginia Truman (née Wallace; February 13, 1885 – October 18, 1982) was the wife of President Harry S. Truman and the 32nd First Lady of the United States from 1945 to 1953. She had previously served as second lady of the United States from January to April 1945. At 97 years, 247 days, she is the longest-lived first and second lady.
Sen. Harry S. Truman visits his mother in Grandview, Missouri, after being nominated the Democratic candidate for vice president (July 1944) Martha Ellen Young was born in Jackson County, Missouri, on November 25, 1852, to Solomon Young, a successful farmer who also had a business running Conestoga wagon trains along the Overland Trail, and his wife Harriet Louisa Gregg.
In 2004, the President Harry S. Truman Fellowship in National Security Science and Engineering was created as a distinguished postdoctoral three-year appointment at Sandia National Laboratories. [360] In 2001, the University of Missouri established the Harry S. Truman School of Public Affairs to advance the study and practice of governance. [361]
After Bess Truman's death in 1982, her personal archives were donated to the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum in Independence, Missouri.While surveying the contents of the archives a year later, Ferrell discovered more than 1,200 letters from Harry to his wife, all of which had been previously thought to have been burned by Bess to preserve their privacy. [7]
Don Young, an 87-year-old former Bethlehem, Pa., steel plant worker., has been married to his wife, Barbara, for more than 20 years, Sky News reports. But while they both identify as Republicans ...
Truman's first choice to succeed him, Chief Justice Vinson, had declined to run, Illinois Governor Adlai Stevenson had also turned Truman down, Vice President Barkley was considered too old, [298] and Truman disliked Senator Kefauver. Accordingly, Truman let his name be entered in the New Hampshire primary by supporters.
Harry Truman played piano and even told the world that if he had been a better pianist he would never have been president. RELATED: Presidents' favorite foods While many presidents count golf ...
Three years after his divorce from his first wife, Maples gave birth to the couple's only child together in 1993, Tiffany Trump (named after "Tiffany & Co"). He and Maples wed two months later.