Socksmith Cotton Crew President Truman

Bet you didn't know that Truman's middle name was literally a letter. After his parents couldn’t agree on a middle name, they gave him a middle name of “S” as a tribute to relatives whose names both started with the letter “S.” And officially, the “S” is followed by a period: “Harry S. Truman.” A new trend? Yeah, probably not.Check out the rest of our Historical Figures collection.