# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
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# Generated: 2026-08-31T14:57:52.253Z

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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born in Lamar, Missouri in 1884, Truman fought in France as a Field Artillery captain during World War I, then returned to open a haberdashery in Kansas City before entering politics as a Jackson County judge in 1922. He rose to national prominence chairing the Truman Committee between 1940 and 1944, targeting wartime contract waste, which carried him to the vice presidency in 1944. When Roosevelt died in April 1945, Truman learned of the Manhattan Project only after assuming office, then authorized the first and only use of nuclear weapons against Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He implemented the Marshall Plan to rebuild Western Europe, established NATO and the Truman Doctrine to contain Soviet expansion, oversaw the Berlin Airlift, and sent troops into Korea when the North invaded in 1950. Facing corruption scandals in his administration and poor approval ratings, he declined to run in 1952, retired to write memoirs and found his presidential library, and died in 1972 — leaving office despised but climbing steadily in historians' rankings ever since.