Archibald W. Truman

Archibald William Truman (13 March 1884 – 20 April 1977) was an American physician, Seventh-day Adventist and vegetarianism activist.

Truman was born in Mulvane, Kansas, he had 11 siblings. Truman was educated at Keene Industrial Academy and Battle Creek College, 1900–1904. He graduated in medicine at the University of Colorado in 1908. He married Daisy Ethel Nary a nurse in September 1908 and they had five children. Truman advocated lacto-ovo vegetarianism, he authored Ten Reasons for a Fleshless Diet, in 1917.

Truman was a faculty member at the College of Medical Evangelists for the first decade of the college's history, 1909–1919 and was a physician and medical director at sanatoriums in Canada, China, and the United States. He was medical director of Glendale Sanitarium in southern California during 1923–1924 and 1941–1946. He served as General Conference medical secretary for 14 years until 1936.

Selected publications Ten Reasons for a Fleshless Diet (1917) Cancer, the Chief Hazard of Living (1931) Diet, Health, Character, Destiny (1936)