Having been vice president for only 82 days, Harry S Truman became the 33rd US president on Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s death ...

The Vice President of the United States stands ... It was the first election where some women had the right to vote. Harry S. Truman replaced Henry Wallace on the Democratic ticket for FDR ...

Harry Truman, through the National Security Act of 1947, made the vice president an ex officio member of the National Security Council. It was not until the 1950s, under President Dwight D.

Vice President Harry S. Truman, who had little experience in foreign affairs, was sworn in as President. In The Conquerors: Roosevelt, Truman and the Destruction of Hitler’s Germany 1941-1945 ...

Only one person in U.S. history has defied the two-term example set by the first president, George Washington. President ...

To Mark Adams, a particular item on display at the Truman Presidential Library and a snippet from the presidential oath of office administered at the White House on April 12, 1945, help show the ...

Alben Barkley, who served as Harry Truman’s vice president, is the one who coined the term "Veep." He found "Mr. Vice President" too formal and got the idea to add the two “e’s” from his ...

After succeeding Franklin Roosevelt in 1945, Harry S. Truman won the presidency in his own right in 1948, defeating Republican Thomas Dewey and achieving one of the most stunning political comebacks ...