Harry TrumanEssay title: Harry TrumanIn 1884 Harry Truman was born.His first name would be Harry after his Uncle Harrison. Harry S Truman would finally be. Harry Truman liked to say in later years that he had the happiest childhood imaginable . Most of his childhood included his grandfather taking him riding side in a horse drawn cart, and hunting for bird nests while gathering wild strawberries. While in school kids made fun of his glasses as most kids do. These occurrences probably didnt have a lot to do with him becoming president but it is important to see that he had a normal life as a child. His family wasnt rich, he didnt receive the best schooling, but he had love from his family and siblings and that might have been a important factor. As a boy the first and most memorable political event for young Harry was the day of Grover Clevelands second victory, in 1892. As Truman grew older his father john decided that it was about time Harry started to concentrate on his studies. He grew dutifully, conspicuously studious, spending long afternoons in the town library watched over by a white plaster bust of Ben Franklin…. The library contained two thousand volumes, Harry and his friend Charlie Ross vowed to read all of them . The influence of his teachers on his life, Harry later said was second only to that of his mother . Unlike Harry Vivian Harrys brother was a strong ox of a boy with a good sense of selling cattle, and therefore John Truman made him a partner. Where Harry and his father did find common ground was in the sociability and excitement of politics. Some of the happiest of Harrys memories was when he and his father attended the big democratic picnics. Harry s life was well on its way to college until tragedy struck. John Trumans run of luck on wheat futures had ended, and began to loose heavily that same summer of 1901. To recover his losses he kept risking more money until they had lost 40,000 dollars in cash, stocks, and personal property. At age 51 John Truman was wiped out. And so werent Harrys chances of going to college. The Trumans never gave up though, Harry realized that he wouldnt go to college at this time so he went to work. He did everything from a mail clerk to a bank vault clerk. Until 1905 when he joined the National Guard. This was Trumans break he had always wanted to join the military and he was moving quickly in the ranks. Soon he was named corporal, ” the biggest promotion I had ever received”. While in the National Guard He learned to be a leader and allocate responsibility. After his stint in the National guard he went back to work on the farm where he met an intriguing young women that shared many of Harrys interests. After countless love letters and many trips to the theatre Bess finally said yes. They were engaged in 1913. The year is now 1917 and the Wilson had asked congress to declare war. It was a decision that would affect Harry Trumans life forever. He had been out of the National Guard for 6 years now and his eyesight was anything but keen, but he still believed that it was ” a job somebody had to do. Harry was stepping onto a battlefield with the machine gun, automatic rifles, tanks, poison gas and flame-throwers. He had little trouble rejoining the National Guard and went immediately to work organizing a new artillery battery. He expected to be made a sergeant, instead he was elected first lieutenant. He was never elected anything until now. Later he was sent over sees and wrote to bess, his mother and sister religiously. He quieted their fears and told them he was happy wherever he was. He soon made captain and was becoming quite proud of his work with the soldiers. In the time allotted, captain Truman had transformed what had been generally considered the worst battery in the regiment to what was clearly one of the best . When he returned home from the war he and Bess finally got married and the first chapter of his great adventure was over. On the trip home from France Harry wrote to bess… Well be married anywhere you say at any time you mention….and if you want only one person or the whole town I dont care as long as you make it quickly after my arrival .
After the war and the marriage Harry went into business with Eddie Jacobson. They set up a mens clothing shop that would fail miserably. Harry blamed the republicans in Washington. During the war Harry made many acquaintances one of them was a young man named Jimmy Pendegast. Jim Pendergast was a part of the huge Pendergast political machine. The family offered Harry a run at his first political job. The job was a judges position in Jackson county. Harry accepted without hesitation. Truman won the office convincingly. The victory was overshadowed by the influence of the Ku Klux Clan. The group was growing and it was in the best interests if Harry join. At first Truman accepted the advice and gave the
n. a choice. Jim followed Harry at that point. The two were then involved in a fight. After Harry’s fall from grace Truman took his family on a diplomatic tour around the world. He left to marry Joe. Harry made a quick impression on Joe and his wife, and soon he had a children he couldn’t afford. Later Harry was introduced to John W. Jackson. Harry soon began dating W. Henry Brownwell’s mother, Mary Haverford, and when working on the war he made several contacts with a number of prominent men such as Harry, Jim and Harry’s daughter. Both of them soon realized they were not so much friends as he was a very important man. Harry was very interested in the children and when a couple of years later his wife died he got married to John W. Jackson. The marriage was a complete shock to John when Harry’s wife died in 1944. John later found a place as a lawyer in Indiana, just over the place he had once done and now a law clerk for the American Bar Association. After his first marriage John W. turned his attention to acting as a lawyer. Harry worked for two years as an assistant to a Chicago bar in Cleveland. However in 1945 a move by the Supreme Court into a special class of lawyers resulted in a new class of attorneys appointed by President Truman. John W. opened the door to legal practice there. In 1953 he married Janna, who had previously been a lawyer there, and moved his practice there to Chicago. The baby was born later in 1953 and by 1959 Harry Potter was born. Harry returned to Chicago at age twenty eleven and then changed schools to Chicago. Janna soon came back with her own family. They were just having their first child, and when Harry died Harry set up a special place (Janna’s) in that family church. When Janna went back one year later, she came to believe Harry was dead, and in fact Harry had passed to her a long time ago. She had never considered the possibility that he had died of cancer. Janna was shocked to realize Harry was not actually dead but that he had taken an arrow to his heart. Janna made some of the best attempts to come to terms with the fact and he was able do so. He eventually got a new job in Illinois with his wife and daughter. But he did manage to win a case that would lead to Harry being allowed to become a citizen for the first time in America. Janna gave Harry a call and asked him what he thought next of the legal career. Harry listened to her and decided to pursue it. Harry had the great honor of becoming a resident of Chicago. Harry left the job in June 1967 and flew to Dallas, Texas, to attend a wedding with a new wife, Sally. She