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  2. Harry S. Truman - Wikipedia

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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.Serving as vice president in 1945, he assumed the presidency upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt.

  3. List of presidents of the United States by date of death

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    333 days after 35th president John F. Kennedy (died November 22, 1963) 33rd president Harry S. Truman (died December 26, 1972) 9 years, 34 days after 35th president John F. Kennedy (died November 22, 1963) 3 years, 273 days after 34th president Dwight D. Eisenhower (died March 28, 1969) 39th president Jimmy Carter (died December 29, 2024)

  4. List of burial places of presidents and vice presidents of ...

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    Burial places of presidents and vice presidents of the United States are located across 23 states and the District of Columbia. Since the office was established in 1789, 45 people have served as President of the United States. [A] Of these, 40 have died. The state with the most presidential burial sites is Virginia with seven.

  5. Presidential memorials in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The Truman Scholarship is the sole federal memorial allowed to honor President Truman. [ 1 ] This can also be accomplished through the establishment of a policy institute, like the Eisenhower Institute whose mandate is to advance Eisenhower's intellectual and leadership legacies through research, public education, and public policy recommendations.

  6. Harry S. Truman National Historic Site - Wikipedia

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    The Truman Home (earlier known as the Gates–Wallace home), 219 North Delaware Street, Independence, Missouri, was the home of Harry S. Truman from the time of his marriage to Bess Wallace on June 28, 1919, until his death on December 26, 1972. Bess Truman's maternal grandfather, George Porterfield Gates, built the house between the years 1867 ...

  7. World War II Memorial - Wikipedia

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    On May 23, 2013, Senator Rob Portman introduced the World War II Memorial Prayer Act of 2013 (Pub. L. 113–123 (text)), which would direct the Secretary of the Interior to install at the World War II memorial a suitable plaque or an inscription with the words that President Franklin D. Roosevelt prayed with the United States on June 6, 1944 ...

  8. Presidency of Harry S. Truman - Wikipedia

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    President Truman signing a proclamation declaring a national emergency and authorizing U.S. entry into the Korean War President Truman (right) and General Douglas MacArthur at Wake Island, October 1950. Following World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union occupied Korea, which had been a colony

  9. Isaac Woodard - Wikipedia

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    Isaac Woodard Jr. (March 18, 1919 – September 23, 1992) was an American soldier and victim of racial violence.An African-American World War II veteran, on February 12, 1946, hours after being honorably discharged from the United States Army, he was attacked while still in uniform by South Carolina police as he was taking a bus home.