Though prominent as a Missouri Senator, Harry Truman had been Vice President only three months when he became President ; he was never informed of Franklin Roosevelt's war or postwar policies while Vice President.

Numerous party leaders privately told Roosevelt that they would fight Wallace's renomination as VP and proposed Missouri Senator Harry S. Truman, a moderate who had gained favorable publicity as the chairman of a Senate wartime investigating committee, as FDR's new running mate.

The bloody and indecisive Korean War was dragging into its third year, Senator Joseph McCarthy's anti-Communist crusade was stirring public fears of an encroaching “ Red Menace ,” and the disclosure of widespread corruption among federal employees ( including some high-level members of Truman's administration ) left Truman at a low political ebb.

From left: President Harry S. Truman, Vice Presidential nominee Alabama United States Senate | Senator John J. Sparkman and Presidential nominee, Governor of Illinois | Illinois Governor Adlai Stevenson.

Senator Estes Kefauver of Tennessee won most of the primaries, but he was unpopular with President Truman and other prominent Democrats, who saw him as a party maverick who could not be trusted.

The act, still effective, was sponsored by Senator Robert Taft and Representative Fred A. Hartley, Jr. and became law by overcoming U. S. President Harry S. Truman's veto on June 23, 1947 ; labor leaders called it the " slave-labor bill " while President Truman argued that it was a " dangerous intrusion on free speech ," and that it would " conflict with important principles of our democratic society ," Nevertheless, Truman would subsequently use it twelve times during his presidency.

Members of the expedition included Helena residents: Truman C. Everts-former U. S. Assessor for the Montana Territory, Judge Cornelius Hedges-U. S. Attorney, Montana Territory, Samuel T. Hauser-President of the First National Bank, Helena, Montana ; later a Governor of the Montana Territory, Warren C. Gillette-Helena merchant, Benjamin C. Stickney Jr .-Helena merchant, Walter Trumbull-son of U. S. Senator Lyman Trumbull ( Illinois ) and Nathaniel P. Langford, then former U. S. Collector of Internal Revenue for Montana Territory.

The chief Republican spokesman Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg strongly supported Truman and overcame the doubts of isolationists such as Senator Robert A. Taft.

One of Pendergast's political proteges was a young World War I veteran from Independence: Harry S. Truman, who had been his nephew's commanding officer in the war, was elected Presiding Judge ( equivalent to a County Executive ) of Jackson County with Pendergast support in 1926, went on to become a U. S. Senator from Missouri, Vice President, and in 1945, following the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the thirty-third President of the United States.

* H. Truman Chafin, Democratic State Senator ( Majority Leader ), attorney

In 1941, the U. S. Senate created the Special Committee to Investigate the National Defense Program at the urging of Senator Harry Truman.

Prior to his becoming editor, The Freeman had supported Senator Joseph McCarthy in his conflict with President Harry Truman on the issue of communism, " undiscriminatingly " according to some critics, but upon becoming editor, Hazlitt changed the magazine's policy to one of support for President Truman.

When Blandy proposed an all-Navy board to evaluate the results, Senator McMahon complained to President Harry Truman that the Navy should not be " solely responsible for conducting operations which might well indeed determine its very existence.

Dean was appointed by President Harry S. Truman as one of the original Commissioners of the AEC in May 1949, by which time McMahon had become Senator ( in 1944 ), author of the Atomic Energy Act of 1946, and chair of the Joint Atomic Energy Committee of Congress.

From left: President Harry S. Truman, Senator Sparkman ( 1952 Vice Presidential nominee ) and Adlai Stevenson II ( Governor of Illinois | Governor, 1952 Presidential nominee ) in the Oval Office

The nomination went instead to U. S. Senator Harry S. Truman of Missouri.

He was described by Senator Harry Truman in public as approaching ' treason ' for profiting from the Nazi war machine and withholding patents from the US government.

It was in the Senate that he first met fellow Senator Harry S. Truman.

While he was in Congress he befriended Missouri Senator Harry S. Truman, a friendship that would last throughout his life.

" Pollack, a former aide to Democratic Senator Harley M. Kilgore and a ghostwriter for then-Senator Harry S. Truman, had authored a series of magazine articles calling for new laws to address a variety of social ills.

After 1945, Villard made common cause with " old right " conservatives, such as Senator Robert A. Taft, Felix Morley, and John T. Flynn, against the Cold War policies of Harry S. Truman.

The Senator had boxed them in with their own restrictions.

While a Senator, Kennedy had unsuccessfully pushed a bill to preserve the Belasco Theater, as well as the Dolley Madison and the Benjamin Taylor houses, all scheduled for razing.

State Senator Joseph A. Bertorelli ( D., First Baltimore ) had a stroke yesterday while in his automobile in the 200 block of West Pratt Street.

A year ago today, when the Democrats were fretting and frolicking in Los Angeles and John F. Kennedy was still only an able and ambitious Senator who yearned for the power and responsibility of the Presidency, Theodore H. White had already compiled masses of notes about the Presidential campaign of 1960.

there was much to grok, loose ends to puzzle over and fit into his growing -- all that he had seen and heard and been at the Archangel Foster Tabernacle ( not just cusp when he and Digby had come face to face alone ) why Bishop Senator Boone made him warily uneasy, how Miss Dawn Ardent tasted like a water brother when she was not, the smell of goodness he had incompletely grokked in the jumping up and down and wailing --

Senior Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois had incorporated popular sovereignty into the Act.

The U. S. Senate Select Committee chaired by Senator Frank Church ( the Church Committee ) reported in 1975 that it had found " concrete evidence of at least eight plots involving the CIA to assassinate Fidel Castro from 1960 to 1965.

Coolidge's grandmother Sarah Almeda Brewer had two famous first cousins: Arthur Brown, a United States Senator, and Olympia Brown, a women's suffragist.

Senator Daniel Inouye, a Democrat from Hawaii and chairman of the appropriations committee, said he initially had favored keeping Guantanamo open until Obama produced a " coherent plan for closing the prison.

While Elagabalus was still on his way to Rome, brief revolts broke out by the Fourth Legion at the instigation of Gellius Maximus, and the Third Legion, which itself had been responsible for the elevation of Elagabalus to the throne, under the command of Senator Verus.

Adams, as a Senator, had supported the Louisiana Purchase and Jefferson's Embargo Act, actions which made him very unpopular with Massachusetts Federalists.

In 1979, there was a large increase in conflict in the House Select Committee on Assassinations ( HSCA ) under Senator Richard Schweiker, which had re-opened the investigation into the assassination of President Kennedy, reported that Hoover's FBI " failed to investigate adequately the possibility of a conspiracy to assassinate the President ".

After the party nominated Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona instead, Robinson left the party's convention commenting that he now had " a better understanding of how it must have felt to be a Jew in Hitler's Germany ".

In an April 11, 2008, interview on the CNN Headline News Glenn Beck Show Voight stated that he had thrown his support to Republican Senator John McCain for President.

* 1856 – Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina beats Senator Charles Sumner with a cane in the hall of the United States Senate for a speech Sumner had made attacking Southerners who sympathized with the pro-slavery violence in Kansas (" Bleeding Kansas ").

Senator Stuart Symington of Missouri had threatened to have baseball's antitrust exemption revoked unless Kansas City was promptly granted another team.

The French minister said in 1793: " Senator Morris and Secretary of the Treasury Hamilton ... had the greatest influence over the President's mind, and that it was only with difficulty that he counterbalanced their efforts.

The media builds Bickle into a hero, when, had he been a little quicker drawing his gun against Senator Palantine, he would have been reviled as an assassin.

Sabinus married up in status, to Vespasia Polla, whose father had risen to prefect of the camp and whose brother became a Senator.

Mrs. Harding and Katherine had become close friends since meeting in Hawaii, when Senator Harding and his wife were on vacation.

Wilson had tried to find a middle ground between conservative Republicans, led by Senator Nelson W. Aldrich, and the powerful left wing of the Democratic party, led by William Jennings Bryan, who strenuously denounced private banks and Wall Street.

* April 12 – By a vote of 45 – 41, the United States Senate unseats Iowa Senator Smith W. Brookhart and seats Daniel F. Steck, after Brookhart had already served for over one year.