RARE “St Louis Cardinals Owner\" Robert E. Hannegan Hand Signed TLS Dated 1944 For Sale

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RARE “St Louis Cardinals Owner\" Robert E. Hannegan Hand Signed TLS Dated 1944:
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Up for sale a RARE!  "IRS Commissioner" Robert E. Hannegan Hand Signed TLS Dated 1944. 

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Robert

Emmet Hannegan (June

30, 1903 – October 6, 1949) was a St. Louis, Missouri politician

who served as Commissioner of Internal

Revenue from October 1943 to January 1944. He also served as

chairman of the Democratic National

Committee from 1944 to 1947 and United States Postmaster

General from 1945 to 1947. After his political career, in 1947,

Hannegan and partner Fred Saigh purchased

the St. Louis Cardinals of Major League Baseball. But

Hannegan, ill with heart disease, sold his

share in the team to Saigh a few months before his death. A power broker in the

St. Louis Democratic Party allied

with Senator Bennett Clark, Hannegan

helped save the political career of Harry S. Truman in 1940 following the tax fraud conviction of Truman's ally, Kansas City

boss Tom Pendergast. Hannegan

supported Truman for re-election to the U.S. Senate when he was challenged in the Democratic

primary by Governor Lloyd C. Stark and Maurice M. Milligan, who

both sought credit for bringing down Pendergast. Truman re-won the seat with

increased support in St. Louis, particularly from Catholic neighborhoods in which Hannegan wielded

considerable influence. In his second term, Truman achieved national prominence

by chairing a Senate committee investigating government waste in defense

contracts. When Franklin D. Roosevelt offered

Truman the position of DNC chairman, Truman declined but recommended Hannegan. In

1944, Roosevelt appointed Hannegan, who had been the Collector of Internal

Revenue in St. Louis, to the DNC after testing him by asking for his help with

his income tax return. As Democratic chairman, Hannegan was

responsible for brokering the deal that made Truman Roosevelt's running

mate that year.

Shortly before the 1944

Democratic National Convention, Roosevelt famously sent Hannegan a

letter stating he would be "happy to run with" either Truman or Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas. Vice

President Henry A. Wallace nearly

won the nomination, but Hannegan worked feverishly to secure Truman's

nomination. Hannegan later joked he wanted his tombstone inscribed with the

words "Here lies the man who stopped Henry Wallace from becoming President

of the United States." Though

plagued with ill health for much of his tenure as party chairman, Hannegan

emphasized voter turnout efforts in Roosevelt's 1944 re-election campaign and

prevented an upset by Thomas Dewey, who won a

surprising 46 percent of the popular vote that year. He promoted a liberal policy agenda

for the national party and was a strong advocate of labor unions. Hannegan stepped down as chairman after

Democrats suffered Congressional losses in the 1946, the midterm elections, but

his ideological focus at the helm of the party contributed to Truman's upset

win in the Presidential election of 1948, and influenced his Fair Deal proposals. 

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