Harry S Truman
Harry S. Truman Harry S. Truman was born in Lamar, Missouri on May 8, 1884. Truman was the oldest of three children of John Anderson and Martha Ellen (Young). Truman was unable to attend college due to his father’s financial difficulties and his poor eyesight dashed any hopes of entering the U.S. ... Commissioned by the National Guard, Captain Truman served in France in command of Battery D of the 129th Field Artillery, 35th Division, American Expeditionary Force, fighting in major battles late in the war. ... After returning home in 1919, Truman married Elizabeth (Bess) Wallace, his childhood sweetheart, and established a clothing store in Kansas City. Even though the store was founded during the postwar boom, it collapsed in the postwar depression, leaving Truman heavily in debt. Active in the Democratic Party, Truman was elected judge of the Jackson county court in 1922, failed to win reelection in 1924, became presiding judge of the court two years later and was reelected in 1930. In 1934, Truman accepted Pendergast’s request that he run for a seat in the U.