These records consist of copies of bills, amendments, and resolutions that were introduced by Senator Harry S. Truman during his first term in the United States Senate.

Size: Less than one-half of one linear foot (about 400 pages).
Access: Open.
Copyright: These records are in the public domain.
Processed by: Marco Ibarra (2008) as part of the Truman Library Internship Program.
Supervising Archivists: Randy Sowell and David Clark.

Harry S. Truman represented Missouri in the United States Senate from January 1935 to January 1945.

This collection of the Records of the United States Senate (Record Group 46) consists of copies of bills, amendments, and resolutions that were introduced by Senator Harry S. Truman during his first term in the United States Senate. The date span of the collection only covers Truman’s first three years in the Senate, from 1935 to 1938.

Included are many bills concerning military appointments, bridges across the Missouri River, and the granting of pensions to individuals. Other bills introduced by Truman provided for the establishment of a General John J. Pershing National Military Park, the building of a monument on the Civil War battlefield at Lone Jack, Missouri, and the creation of a commercial airport in the vicinity of the nation’s Capital. The amendments in the collection pertain to the Interstate Commerce Act and the Reconstruction Finance Corporation Act.

Related collections at the Truman Library include the Harry S. Truman Papers: Papers as U.S. Senator and Vice President.

Container Nos.		Series
1		BILL FILE, 1935-1938
		Copies of bills, amendments, and resolutions introduced by Senator Harry S. Truman during his first term in the United States Senate. Arranged chronologically.

BILL FILE, 1935-1938

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