Harry S. Truman, US President from 1945 to 1953, died of multiple organ failures after being admitted to the hospital with lung congestion due to pneumonia.
When he died in December of 1972 at 88.6 years of age, he was the 3rd-longest-lived US President, after John Adams and Herbert Hoover, the first two Presidents to pass the age of 90. He has since dropped to 7th place, having been passed by Ronald Reagan on September 25, 1999, Gerald Ford on March 2, 2002, George H. W. Bush on January 29, 2013, and Jimmy Carter on May 20, 2013.
Richard Milhouse Nixon remained the US President when Harry S. Truman died on 1972 December 6. Truman was 88.
Harry S. Truman was elected president in 1944. President Truman died in 1972 at the age of 88 in Kansas City, Missouri.
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt preceded Truman as the President of the United States. Being Vice President, Truman first became President when Roosevelt died in office just a few weeks after his fourth inauguration, in his fourth month of office.
Truman was FDR's Vice-President when FDR died in office.
He was Vice President and Roosevelt died in office.
Richard Milhouse Nixon remained the US President when Harry S. Truman died on 1972 December 6. Truman was 88.
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Truman was FDR's Vice-President when FDR died in office.
President Harry Truman died on December 26, 1972.
President Harry Truman died on December 26, 1972.
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President Harry S. Truman died in 1980.
Harry Truman, the Vice-president., became President at the death of President Roosevelt on April 12.1945.
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Truman became president when FDR died. Truman was the VP. He had been US Senator before being FDR's running mate in 1944.