Note: This is just one of
1,325
family groupings listed on
The Political Graveyard web site.
These families each have three or more politician members,
all linked together by blood, marriage or adoption.
These groupings — even the names of the groupings,
and the areas of main activity — are the
result of a computer algorithm working with the data I have,
not the choices of any historian or genealogist.
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James C. Chiles (1802-1883) —
of Jackson
County, Mo.
Born in Clark
County, Ky., August
14, 1802.
Member of Missouri
state house of representatives from Jackson County, 1839, 1857;
member of Missouri
state senate 25th District, 1847.
Died in Sherman, Grayson
County, Tex., March
23, 1883 (age 80 years, 221
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Independence, Mo.
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Relatives: Son
of Henry Chiles and Sarah (Ballinger) Chiles; married to Ruth Wilson
Hamilton and Elizabeth Ann (Mitchusson) Massey; granduncle of Harry
S. Truman. |
|  | Political family: Truman
family of Independence, Missouri. |
|  | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Benjamin Franklin Wallace (1817-1877) —
of Independence, Jackson
County, Mo.
Born in Green
County, Ky., April
26, 1817.
Mayor
of Independence, Mo., 1869.
Died in Jackson
County, Mo., June 2,
1877 (age 60 years, 37
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Independence, Mo.
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Harry S. Truman (1884-1972) —
also known as "Give 'Em Hell Harry" —
of Independence, Jackson
County, Mo.
Born in Lamar, Barton
County, Mo., May 8,
1884.
Democrat. Major in the U.S. Army during World War I; county judge in
Missouri, 1922-24, 1926-34; U.S.
Senator from Missouri, 1935-45; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Missouri, 1940,
1944
(member, Platform
and Resolutions Committee; speaker),
1952,
1960;
Vice
President of the United States, 1945; President
of the United States, 1945-53; candidate for Democratic
nomination for President, 1952.
Baptist.
Member, Freemasons;
Scottish
Rite Masons; Knights
Templar; American
Legion; Eagles;
Elks; Lambda
Chi Alpha; Phi
Alpha Delta.
Two members of a Puerto Rican nationalist group, Griselio Torresola
and Oscar Collazo, tried to shoot their way into Blair House,
temporary residence of the President, as part of an attempted
assassination, November 1, 1950. Torresola and a guard, Leslie
Coffelt, were killed. Collazo, wounded, was arrested, tried, and
convicted of murder.
Died at Research Hospital
and Medical Center, Kansas City, Jackson
County, Mo., December
26, 1972 (age 88 years, 232
days).
Interment at Truman
Presidential Library and Museum, Independence, Mo.; statue at Independence
Square, Independence, Mo.
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Relatives: Son
of John Anderson Truman and Martha Ellen (Young) Truman; married, June 28,
1919, to Elizabeth
Virginia Wallace (granddaughter of Benjamin
Franklin Wallace); grandnephew of James
C. Chiles. |
|  | Political family: Truman
family of Independence, Missouri. |
|  | Cross-reference: Andrew
J. May — Milton
Lipson — Samuel
I. Rosenman — Stephen
J. Spingarn — James
M. Curley — George
E. Allen — George
E. Allen — Jonathan
Daniels |
|  | Truman State
University, Kirksville,
Missouri, is named for
him. — Truman College,
Chicago,
Illinois, is named for
him. — Harry S. Truman High
School, in Levittown,
Pennsylvania, is named for
him. |
|  | Other politicians named for him: H.
Truman Chafin
— Harry
Truman Moore
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|  | Personal motto: "The Buck Stops
Here." |
|  | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
|  | Books by Harry S. Truman: The
Autobiography of Harry S. Truman |
|  | Books about Harry S. Truman: David
McCullough, Truman —
Alonzo L. Hamby, Man
of the People : A Life of Harry S. Truman — Sean J.
Savage, Truman
and the Democratic Party — Ken Hechler, Working
With Truman : A Personal Memoir of the White House
Years — Alan Axelrod, When
the Buck Stops With You: Harry S. Truman on
Leadership — Ralph Keyes, The
Wit and Wisdom of Harry S. Truman — William Lee
Miller, Two
Americans: Truman, Eisenhower, and a Dangerous World —
Matthew Algeo, Harry
Truman's Excellent Adventure: The True Story of a Great American Road
Trip — David Pietrusza, 1948:
Harry Truman's Improbable Victory and the Year that Transformed
America — Mike Resnick, ed., Alternate
Presidents [anthology] |
|  | Image source: Who's Who in United
States Politics (1950) |
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Bess Truman (1885-1982) —
also known as Elizabeth Virginia Wallace —
Born in Independence, Jackson
County, Mo., February
13, 1885.
Democrat. Second Lady
of the United States, 1945; First Lady
of the United States, 1945-53.
Female.
Died in Independence, Jackson
County, Mo., October
18, 1982 (age 97 years, 247
days).
Interment at Truman
Presidential Library and Museum, Independence, Mo.
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