Truman Day
# Truman Day

Truman Day is a commemorative holiday to celebrate the birth of Harry S. Truman, the 33rd President of the United States. It is celebrated May 8 in Missouri as a state holiday, according to Missouri Revised Statutes Section 9-035 Public Holidays and nationally by the United States Democratic Party. Since Truman was the only president to come from Missouri, this day is special for this state. However, after the financial crisis of 2008–2010, there were unsuccessful moves by the state government to abolish the holiday. For Missouri state employees, this is a paid holiday.

## Origins

* This article is part of a series aboutHarry S. Truman

Early life

Electoral history

Assassination attempt

Legacy

Truman Day

Scholarship

USS Harry S. Truman

Truman Reservoir

Little White House

Bibliography

Senator from Missouri

Senate career

Truman Committee

Senate elections

1934

1940

33rd President of the United States

Presidency

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Executive actions

Foreign policy

Truman Doctrine

international trips

Cabinet

Judicial appointments

Supreme Court candidates

First term

First inauguration

Atomic bombing

Marshall Plan

Strike wave

Mental Health Act

Potsdam Conference

NATO

Timeline

'45

'46

'47

'48

Second term

Second inauguration

Korean War

Housing Act

Fair Deal

Sherman Minton Supreme Court nomination

Steel strike

Puerto Rican referendum

Timeline

'49

'50

'51

'52–'53

Presidential and Vice presidential campaigns

1944

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convention

election

1948

primaries

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election

Dewey Defeats Truman

1952

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Death

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Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884 – December 26, 1972) was the 33rd President of the United States (1945–1953), an American politician of the Democratic Party. He served as a United States senator from Missouri (1935–1945) and briefly as Vice President (1945) before he succeeded to the presidency on April 12, 1945, upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt. He was president during the final months of World War II, making the decision to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Truman was elected in his own right in 1948. He presided over an uncertain domestic scene as America sought its path after the war, and tensions with the Soviet Union increased, marking the start of the Cold War.

