Rose Conway

Rose Conway (1900 – March 17, 1980) was an American political aide who served as the personal secretary to United States President Harry S. Truman from 1945 until 1953.

For a time Conway worked for an insurance executive and then for ten years as secretary to John Vivian Truman, district director of the Kansas City Area Federal Housing Administration.

John Vivian told his brother, Harry S. Truman, then a United States Senator, about Rose's efficiency.

[3] In February 1945, after Truman became Vice President of the United States, he asked Rose to join his Washington staff.

In 1977, she was declared an honorary member of Battery D, 129th Field Artillery, the unit that Truman had commanded in World War I.