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Mary Margaret Truman Daniel (February 17, 1924January 29, 2008), also known as Margaret Truman or Margaret Daniel, was an American singer who later became the successful author of a series of murder mysteries and a number of works on U.S. First Ladies and First Families, including a biography of her father, President Harry S. Truman. The only child of Harry Truman and First Lady Bess Truman, she was "a witty, hard-working Midwestern girl with singing talent who was neither particularly pretty nor terribly plain."〔 (Times online, February 2, 2008 )〕 ==Biography== Born in Independence, Missouri, she was christened Mary Margaret Truman (for her aunt Mary Jane Truman and maternal grandmother Margaret Gates Wallace) but was called Margaret from early childhood. She attended school in Independence until her father's 1934 election to the U.S. Senate, after which her education was split between schools in Washington, D.C. and Independence. In 1942, she matriculated at George Washington University, where she was a member of Pi Beta Phi〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Notable Pi Phis )〕 and earned a B.A. in History in 1946.〔 In June 1944, she christened the battleship USS ''Missouri'' at Brooklyn Navy Yard (and spoke again in 1986 at the ship's recommissioning). On April 21, 1956, Truman married ''New York Times'' reporter (and later editor) Clifton Daniel at Trinity Episcopal Church in Independence; he died in 2000. They had four sons: * Clifton Truman Daniel (born 1957), Director of Public Relations for Harry S Truman College. * William Wallace Daniel (May 19, 1959 – September 4, 2000), a psychiatric social worker and researcher at Columbia University. * Harrison Gates Daniel (born 1963) * Thomas Washington Daniel (born 1966) In later life, Truman lived in her Park Avenue home. She died on January 29, 2008, in Chicago (to which she was relocating to be nearer her son Clifton). She was said to have been suffering from "a simple infection" and had been breathing with the assistance of a respirator. Her ashes, and those of her husband, were interred in Independence, in her parents' burial plot on the grounds of the Truman Library.〔Meyer, Gene, ("The ashes of Margaret Truman Daniel are put to rest in her roots" ), ''Kansas City Star'', February 23, 2008. Retrieved March 13, 2008.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Margaret Truman」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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