Harry S. Truman[b](May 8, 1884 – December 26, 1972) was the 33rd president of the United States, serving from 1945 to 1953. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as the 34th vice presidentfrom January to April 1945 under Franklin D. Roosevelt and as a United States senatorfrom Missouri from 1935 to January 1945. Assuming the presidency after Roosevelt’s death, Truman implemented the Marshall Plan to rebuild the economy of Western Europe and established both the Truman Doctrine and NATO to contain the expansion of Soviet communism. He proposed numerous liberal domestic reforms, but few were enacted by the conservative coalitionthat dominated the Congress.
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Harry S. Truman
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Official portrait, c. 1947
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| 33rd President of the United States | |
| In office April 12, 1945 – January 20, 1953 |
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| Vice President |
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