Harry Truman
Harry Truman was a president of the United States during the end of World War II. He made the decision to drop the atomic bomb, then famously won reelection in a close election over Dewey.
He led the United States through the Korean War, dismissing General Douglass MacArthur in the process.
In 1948, Truman desegregated the military. [1]
He was the last president to only have a high school education, and was a haberdasher before he got involved in politics.
He had a plaque on his desk that said, "The buck stops here."
Harry S. Truman was President of the United States from 1945 until 1953. He was the last president to not have a oollege education. Truman was known for saying, "The buck stops here", and for having won a tough reelection campaign against Dewey where newspapers printed that he lost.
Franklin Roosevelt, being the secretive paranoid that he was, did not fill in Truman on the Manhattan Project and other important war issues. Truman only learned of these after he was already president.
Truman was a Democrat.