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==Early life==

==Early life==

Truman was born on a farm near [[Lamar, Missouri|Lamar]], in western Missouri, and grew up on a farm near Independence, Missouri.  His grandparents had been Confederate sympathizers who had been rounded up by the Union army in the Civil War.<ref>His middle initial, S, does not stand for anything, but was chosen because his parents could not decide whether to name him for his grandfather Shippe or for his grandfather Solomon.</ref>  After graduating from high school in Independence, with good skills in history and music, he decided against college and became a bank clerk in Kansas City.  Always a joiner, he was active in the Missouri National Guard.  From 1906 to 1917 he managed his father's 600-acre farm at [[Grandview, Missouri]]. During World War I his National Guard regiment was mobilized in 1917, he entered the Field Artillery School at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, sailing for France in 1917 as a lieutenant. Truman was soon promoted to captain in Battery D, 129 Field Artillery Battalion, 35th Division, A.E.F., and returned to the United States a major in 1919, after combat at St. Mihiel and in the Argonne offensive. He was in an artillery unit, and learned about gas warfare; he was never wounded, He married Elizabeth "Bess" Wallace on June 28, 1919; they had one daughter, Margaret, who married a ''New York Times'' editor.  With an army buddy he invested his savings in a Kansas City haberdashery, but this venture was a failure.

Truman was born on a farm near [[Lamar, Missouri|Lamar]], in western Missouri, and grew up on a farm near Independence, Missouri.  His grandparents had been Confederate sympathizers who had been rounded up by the Union army in the Civil War.<ref>His middle initial, S, does not stand for anything, but was chosen because his parents could not decide whether to name him for his grandfather Shippe or for his grandfather Solomon.</ref>  After graduating from high school in Independence, with good skills in history and music, he enrolled in a local business college in Kansas City, Spalding's Commercial College, but dropped out and instead become a bank clerk in Kansas City.   

 

Always a joiner, he was active in the Missouri National Guard.  From 1906 to 1917 he managed his father's 600-acre farm at [[Grandview, Missouri]]. During World War I his National Guard regiment was mobilized in 1917, he entered the Field Artillery School at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, sailing for France in 1917 as a lieutenant. Truman was soon promoted to captain in Battery D, 129 Field Artillery Battalion, 35th Division, A.E.F., and returned to the United States a major in 1919, after combat at St. Mihiel and in the Argonne offensive. He was in an artillery unit, and learned about gas warfare; he was never wounded, He married Elizabeth "Bess" Wallace on June 28, 1919; they had one daughter, Margaret, who married a ''New York Times'' editor.  With an army buddy he invested his savings in a Kansas City haberdashery, but this venture was a failure.

==Pendergast machine==

==Pendergast machine==