Who was Trumans vice-president?
Alben Barkley ran for Vice-President of the United States on the 1948 Democratic ticket with President Truman. As Vice-President, his popular nickname was “the Veep.” Barkley was born on November 24, 1877, near Lowes, in Graves County, Kentucky. His parents were tenant farmers who raised tobacco. After the family settled on a wheat farm in Hickman County, Kentucky, in 1891, Barkley attended Marvin College, graduating in 1897. He attended one year of law school at Emory University, in Atlanta, Georgia, and then returned to Kentucky to clerk for two attorneys before successfully passing the bar exam (graduation from law school was not a requirement at that time). Opening a law office in Paducah, Kentucky, in 1901, Barkley married Dorothy Brower, in 1903, and they had three children: David Murrell, Marion Frances, and Laura Louis. Barkley soon entered politics and was elected County Attorney in 1904. He became a County Judge in 1909, and was thereafter elected to Congress. Beginning in 19
