Who was the president in 1953?

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US: Harry S. Truman

Born May 8, 1884 in Lamar, Missouri, died December 26, 1972 in Kansas City, Missouri, Harry Truman succeeded Franklin D. Roosevelt as the thirty-third President of the United States, serving between April 12, 1945 and January 20, 1953, including the whole of 1950.