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Mother of Bess Wallace Truman and mother-in-law of Harry S. Truman. The Madge (Margaret) Gates Wallace Papers contain bank statements, cancelled checks, receipts, correspondence, invitations, memorabilia, printed material, and other items relating to her life and family. Size: Less than one linear foot (about 800 pages).
Bess Truman and her new husband chose to live in the Gates house, which after the death of Madge Wallace in 1952 became the Truman house by purchase from Bess’s brothers. During the 1920s, while Bess’s husband first conducted a haberdashery in Kansas City (1919–1922) and then was eastern judge of Jackson County (1923–1924) and presiding judge (1927–1934), the Truman family lived at ...
6. Feb. 2023 · Harry and Bess Truman lived together in this house, with absences in Washington, DC, and elsewhere, for 53 years, 5 months, and 28 days. Bess was so essential to Harry Truman that history might not know his name at all if she had not finally decided to accept him as her husband. Harry's impetuous and apparently unwelcome proposal in June 1911 ...
Bess Truman (dreta) veient com el president Johnson firma el Medicare com a llei (1965). A Bess li va semblar la total falta de privadesa de la Casa Blanca de molt mal gust. Com diria el seu marit més tard, ella no estava "interessada particularment" en la "pompa i formalitat o en l'artificialitat que, com sabem, envolta inevitablement a la família del President".
31. Mai 2023 · Truman, Bess. Elizabeth Virginia (Bess) Wallace was born in Independence, Missouri, on February 13, 1885, to David Willock and Margaret Gates Wallace. While her mother's family was wealthy, her father's employment was spotty, and Bess was keenly aware of the tensions created by her mother's expectations and her father's failure to provide.
Follow @TIME. Bess Truman: 1885-1982. Her husband called her "the boss" and "my chief adviser." But months after Harry Truman became President in 1945, First Lady Bess went shopping in Washington's big department stores and no one recognized her. That was the way she wanted it, and to a surprising extent that was the way it stayed.
Bess Truman’s Legacy Bess Truman was once asked by a reporter what she wanted to do when her husband was no longer President. She quickly and honestly replied, “Return to Independence.” At the end of President Truman’s second term, the couple gladly returned to their family home in Independence. Their retirement years included vacations in
