How many US presidents were millionaires before assuming office?
I know a thing or two about Harry Truman, he was a good piano player (his peers marveled at his skills) and a poor business man. He was not rich. -Coward — — — Harry Truman, from Missouri, was a different kind of President. He probably made as many important decision regarding our nation’s history as any of the other 42 Presidents. However, a measure of his greatness may rest on what he did after he left the White House. Historians have written the only asset he had when he died was the house he lived in, which was in Independence, Missouri. On top of that, his wife inherited the house from her Mother. When he retired from office in 1952, his income was a U.S. Army pension reported to have been $13,507.72 a year. Congress, noting that he was paying for his stamps and personally licking them, granted him an ‘allowance’ and, later, a retroactive pension of $25,000 per year. After President Eisenhower was inaugurated, Harry and Bess drove home to Missouri by themselves. There were n
