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Built about 1867 by mill owner George Porterfield Gates, this house became the home of President Harry S. Truman and his wife, Bess Wallace Truman, Gates's granddaughter, from the time of their marriage in 1919, and it served as the Summer White House from 1945 to 1953.
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Independence, Missouri · United States
