Harry Truman, before becoming President, was a shopkeeper in Kansas, then he worked as farmer and was an army officer in World War I.
Harry S. Truman (1884-1972) was the 33rd president of the United States from 1945 to 1953.
After graduating from Independence High School in 1901, Truman worked as a timekeeper at the Santa Fe railroad station, subsequently working on a series of local jobs. He worked briefly in the mail room of Kansas City. He returned to his family farm in Grandview in 1906 and remained there until 1917, when he entered military service. The physically demanding work that was put on the Grandview farm was a formative experience.
During the First World War, Truman was an artillery officer, becoming the only president of the country to fight in that war (his successor, Eisenhower, only trained teams of gunners in Pennsylvania).
