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Harry Truman: Done at the City of Washington this 27th day of July in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-nine, and of the…

On the recordJuly 26, 1949
Done at the City of Washington this 27th day of July in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-nine, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventy-fourth.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

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