Harry S. Truman

  • by George Bailey • Published: March 27, 2007

The thirty-third American president Harry S. Truman was born and raised in various parts of Missouri. Lamar is his birthplace. When Truman was not quite one year old his father, who was a farmer and livestock dealer, moved the family to Grandview. There, the Trumans lived on a six-hundred acre farm owned by the presidents grandparents. When he was six the family moved once more, this time to Independence, Missouri. Supposedly this move was inspired by a strong desire to send Truman to the Presbyterian Church Sunday School there. Truman returned to Grandview after his high-school graduation and it is to the farmer’s life he led at that time that he frequently alluded as a political leader.

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