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Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby
I thought HST's middle name was S?
I know it wasn't Stockton - that was the OTHER HST  |
The controversy with Harry is, believe it or not, whether his middle name is S or S.
He only has the letter, so does it get a period or not?
From the Harry S. Truman museum [which uses the period although I think Harry would not]
"Since the S did not stand for a name, Harry didn’t use a period after it for most of his life. Soon after he was elected president, the editors of the Chicago Style Manual informed Truman that omitting a period after his middle initial was improper grammar and a bad example for America’s youth. From that moment on, the 33rd President signed his name Harry S. Truman or put all the letters in his name together as in HarrySTruman."
I'll add that there are examples from before his presidency where he did use a period and where he did not.