Robert E. Hannegan
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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 of 1943 to January of 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.
Hannegan saved the political career of Harry S. Truman in 1940 following the downfall of Truman's sponsor Kansas City boss Tom Pendergast when he supported Truman in a U.S. Senate race against Lloyd C. Stark and Maurice M. Milligan who split the anti-Pendergast vote.
As Democratic chairman, Hannegan was responsible for brokering the deal that put Truman on the Vice President ticket with Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1944.
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