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He was a candidate to replace Henry A. Wallace as Roosevelt's running mate in the 1944 election, but instead Harry S. Truman was nominated by the 1944 Democratic National Convention. After Roosevelt's death, Byrnes served as a close adviser to Truman and became U.S. Secretary of State in July 1945.
But it was Harry Truman who got the nod, to Byrnes' - and Truman's - chagrin. Less than nine months later FDR was dead, Truman was President, and Byrnes was temporarily retired. When Truman inherited the presidency on April 12, 1945, he knew little about FDR's foreign policy.
Harry S. Truman 's tenure as the 33rd president of the United States began on April 12, 1945, upon the death of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and ended on January 20, 1953. He had been vice president for only 82 days when he succeeded to the presidency. Truman, a Democrat from Missouri, ran for and won a full four-year term in the 1948 ...
Upon his swearing in as President Harry Truman’s Secretary of State, on 3rd July 1945, James Francis ‘Jimmy’ Byrnes quietly assumed greater powers than his new position entailed. In coming weeks, Byrnes would act as Truman’s big brother and almost as a de facto president.
May 11, 2018 · The American public official James Francis Byrnes (1879-1972) was a prominent political figure for some 40 years, serving under presidents Franklin Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman. James F. Byrnes was born to immigrant Irish parents in Charleston, S.C., on May 2, 1879.
Headed by Stimson and James Byrnes, whom Truman would soon name secretary of state, the Interim Committee was a group of respected statesmen and scientists closely linked to the war effort. After five meetings between May 9 and June 1, it recommended use of the bomb against Japan as soon as possible and rejected arguments for advance warning.
Byrnes was a failed contender for the Democratic vice-presidential nomination in 1944 but was appointed secretary of state by President Harry S. Truman in 1945. He resigned in 1947, returning to his law practice. Byrnes later served as governor of South Carolina (1950-1955).
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