Harry s truman biography library and museum

Library and museum for U.S. President Harry S. Truman, located in Missouri

The Harry S Truman Presidential Library and Museum is the presidential library and resting place of Harry S Truman, the 33rdpresident of the United States (1945–1953), his wife Bess and daughter Margaret, and is located on U.S.

Highway 24 in Independence, Missouri. It was the first presidential library created under the provisions of the 1955 Presidential Libraries Act and is one of thirteen presidential libraries administered by the National Archives and Records Administration.

History

The library was built with private funds raised by the Harry S. Truman Library Inc., with Truman himself contributing greatly to the fundraising effort by "attending dinners, making speeches around the country, and writing thousands of letters".^[1][2]

Built on a hill overlooking the Kansas City skyline, on land donated by the City of Indepe