Discuss Truman's early life, including early business, his army service and his political life up through his career in the Senate. Harry S. Truman was born on May 8, 1884, in Lamar, MO. He was the son of John Anderson and Martha Ellen Young Truman. A family compromise between grandfathers middle names, Shipp and Solomon resulted giving him only the middle initial S. Sometimes he used a period (.), sometimes he didn't. In his early childhood, he moved …showed first 75 words of 526 total…

…showed last 75 words of 526 total…and efficiency. Truman, with the help of powerful Democrat Thomas Pendergast, was elected to the US Senate in 1934. He chaired the 'Truman Committee' investigating government defense spending, saving the US millions of dollars. He was chosen as VP running mate for FDR because of his honesty and integrity, in the 1944 campaign. They won a comfortable victory. Truman served only 82 days as VP, when FDR died. Harry S. Truman became the 33rd President of the US.