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Harry S. Truman, (April 12, 1943 – January 20, 1953)
• Born: May 8, 1884
• Birthplace: Lamar, Missouri
• Died: December 26, 1972
• Best Known As: 33rd President of the
United States;
Highlights of his presidency include the:
• Truman Doctrine, affirming the United
States' willingness to provide military aid
to countries resisting communism.
• Marshall Plan, a strategy for reviving the
economies of the European nations
• Negotiation of the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization, a military alliance to protect
Western nations.
• Fair Deal, a program outlining his agenda
for domestic economic growth and social
reform.
• Use of executive orders to end racial
segregation in the armed forces and civil
service.
• Appointment of eighteen women to high
ranking posts, including Georgia Neese
Clark, the first U.S. Treasurer.
Secretary of the Treasury appointed by President Truman:
• Fred M. Vinson (Louisa, Kentucky) July
23,1945 – June 23, 1946
• John Wesley Snyder ( Forrest City,
Arkansas) – June 25, 1946 – January 20,
1953
United States Mint Directors Appointed by President Truman:
• President Truman did not appoint any
United States Mint directors.
Coinage legislation enacted under President Truman:
• Private Law 438, 79th Congress,
approved March 22, 1946: Authorized a
Congressional Gold Medal to General of
the Army George Catlett Marshall and Fleet
Admiral Ernest Joseph King.
• Private Law 831, 79th Congress, approved
August 7, 1946: Congressional Gold Medal
to General of the Armies of the United
States John J. Pershing.
• Private Law 884, 79th Congress, approved
August 8, 1946: Congressional Gold Medal
to Brigadier General William Mitchell.
• Act of August 12, 1949: Authorized a
Congressional Gold Medal to Vice
President Alben W. Barkley.
• Act of August 7, 1946: Authorized the
coinage of 50-cent pieces to commemorate
the life and perpetuate the ideals and
teachings of Booker T. Washington.
• Act of August 7, 1946: Authorized the
coinage of 50-cent pieces to commemorate
the one-hundredth anniversary of the
admission of Iowa into the Union as a
State.
• Act of June 5, 1947: Amended section
3539 of the Revised Statutes, relating to
taking trial pieces of coins. The change
authorized selecting 10, instead of two,
coins for the Annual Assay.
• Act of June 14, 1947: Amended sections
3533 and 3536 of the Revised Statutes
with respect to deviations in standard of
ingots and weight of silver coins.
Deviations from the weights of each of
America's four silver coins were to be six
grains for the dollar, four grains for the half-
dollar, three grains for the quarter, and one
and one-half grains for the dime.
• May 10, 1949: President Harry Truman
signs bill into law allowing the Mint to
recover costs of producing and selling
Proof coins.
• Act of May 10, 1950: Amended section
3526 of the Revised Statutes relating to
coinage of subsidiary silver coins. The gain
arising from the coinage of silver from
bullion was to be credited to a newly
established silver-profit fund, among whose
several uses was to cover the cost of
distributing silver coins. (One of the last
laws on circulating silver coins.)
• Act of September 21, 1951: Authorized the
coinage of 50-cent pieces to commemorate
the lives and perpetuate the ideals and
teachings of Booker T. Washington and
George Washington Carver, two great
Americans. Amended the Act of August 7,
1946.