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Harry S. Truman was the 33rd president of the United States, serving from 1945 to 1953.
* A leader of the Democratic Party, he previously served as the 34th vice president from January to April 1945 under Franklin Roosevelt and as a United States senator from Missouri from 1935 to January 1945.
* Assuming the presidency after Roosevelt's death, Truman implemented the Marshall Plan to rebuild the economy of Western Europe and established both the Truman Doctrine and NATO to contain the expansion of Soviet communism.
* He also ordered the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which led to the surrender of Japan and the end of World War II.
* Truman was defeated for re-election in 1952 by Dwight D. Eisenhower.
* He died in 1972 at the age of 88.