when was he born?
October 1896.
Harry R. Truman
Truman was born to foresters in West Virginia in October 1896. 
who was harry r. truman? He was an American businessman, bootlegger, and prospector.
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Harry R. Truman [SEP] Early life
Truman was born to foresters in West Virginia in October 1896. He did not know his exact date of birth, though he gave it as October 30, 1896. Some non-contemporaneous sources have given his middle name as Randall, but Truman stated that he did not know his middle name, just the initial R. Truman's family moved west to Washington state, drawn to the promise of cheap land and the successful timber industry in the Pacific Northwest; they settled on of farmland in the eastern portion of Lewis County, Washington.