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	Tom Pendergast - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pendergast handpicked Harry S. Truman, the 1934 candidate for U.S. Senate.
		Pendergast was famed for his common touch and helped pay the poor's medical bills, provided jobs and had famous Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners for the poor.
		Pendergast had endorsed Stark (famed for Stark Apples and is reputed to have had the largest apple orchard in the country) for governor in 1936.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tom_Pendergast (574 words)

	The Political Machine of Tom Pendergast of Kansas City, Missouri
		The Pendergast holdings were extended by Tom from saloons to a wholesale liquor company, a hotel, a delivery service and later, after Prohibition in 1920 forced the closure of the saloons and liquor business, a ready-mix concrete company.
		Tom Pendergast treated this aid like the funds his machine distributed to the poor in the past, the only difference is that there was a lot more of it.
		Truman said of Tom Pendergast, "He was always my friend, and I have always been his." Had Tom Pendergast lived until April of 1945 he would have witnessed one of his Goats become President of the United States, a President who is generally acknowledged to have been a near-great if not great president.
	www.applet-magic.com /pendergast.htm (2111 words)

	The History of the Kansas City Family by Allan May
		Pendergast was elected a delegate to represent the "Bloody Sixth" Ward in that year’s Democratic City Convention.
		As an alderman, Pendergast was known as a fighter for the workingman.
		As the Pendergast machine began having problems around the time of Jim’s death in late 1911, Tom began to forge alliances with former enemies within the party and with local Republicans, when he could convince them that both their interests could be served while agreeing on an issue.
	crimemagazine.com /kcfamily.htm (15976 words)

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		Posing as a mere businessman, Pendergast ran the city so that workers were provided jobs, chosen politicians ran the government and the entire "machine" made a profit that filled his pockets.
		Pendergast's influence brought more corruption to Kansas City than anyone in history, but is also credited with helping the city survive the Great Depression.
		Thomas Joseph Pendergast was born in 1873 in St. Joseph, Missouri, one of nine children.
	www.kclibrary.org /localhistory/media.cfm?mediaID=35057 (348 words)

	Who needs a job? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Tom Pendergast, a rather unsavory character, was involved in a number of illegal activities...gun-running, prostitution, bootlegging and narcotics.
		Pendergast was "perfuming" his machine by choosing someone with integrity, and who had the support of the veterans from WWI.
		He depended on Pendergast, his war record, and the boys from Battery D. The boys from Battery D went all out to support their Captain by campaigning and cheering at all the rallies.
	d21c.com /willowbee/page10-lookingforwork.html (393 words)

	Lloyd C. Stark - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lloyd Stark had a fierce political rivalry with Harry S. Truman, who he ran against for the Senate in 1940—and lost that election when one of Stark's prominent supporters ran against him and divided the vote among his Eastern Missouri power base.
		The falling out between Stark and Kansas City Boss Tom Pendergast in 1936 is widely believed to have been the turning point in Boss Tom's fall from power.
		Pendergast's minions were more corrupt and obvious than usual in the 1936 election.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lloyd_C._Stark (261 words)

	Memorandum Regarding Relations with Pendergast Machine by Harry S. Truman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Mike Pendergast was head of the "goat" organization in the old 10th Ward of Kansas City and was recognized in the country part of Jackson County as the head of the Pendergast organization outside Kansas City.
		Pendergast was interested in having as many friends in key positions as possible but he always took the position that if a man didn’t do the job he was supposed to do, fire him and get someone who would.
		Pendergast never talked to me about my duties as County Judge except in matters of patronage but the one time on the bond issue contracts and then he supported me. He only talked to me once about my work in the Senate and that was when Senator Alben Barkley was running for floor leader.
	teachingamericanhistory.org /library/index.asp?document=588 (1595 words)

	Untitled Document
		Tom Pendergast's office, identified on exterior window signs as the "Jackson Democratic Club," was on the second floor of this very unpretentious two-story building from 1927 until his conviction for income tax evasion in 1939.
		Truman was inclined to view Pendergast from a very personal perspective that dwelled on the support Pendergast typically gave him and on some of Pendergast's personal qualities that he admired.
		Pendergast (pictured left in his prison admission photo) became ill in the summer of 1936 and his organization went into decline.
	www.trumanlibrary.org /places/kc8.htm (612 words)

	Creating the Modern Man American Magazines and Consumer Culture, 1900-1950 Tom Pendergast
		Pendergast focuses on the rise of mass consumer culture, demonstrating that consumerism was a key factor in reshaping American notions of masculinity as presented in popular magazines.
		Pendergast reasons that the rise of modern masculinity opened the way for African American men to identify with normative masculine values.
		Tom Pendergast is the editorial director of Full Circle Editorial, Inc., and coeditor of the St.
	www.umsystem.edu /upress/spring2000/penderga.htm (351 words)

	Jack Cashill - National Articles:
		Before Pendergast died in 1911, the last person he asked to speak to was Tom Pendergast, the youngest of his nine siblings and the most ambitious.
		Tom Pendergast saw his future—and, by extension, the city’s future—in the streetcar.
		This argument would carry more moral force if “Tom’s Town” were not itself segregated and had not the Pendergasts aligned with the party that had made Jim Crow the law of the land in much of America, Missouri included.
	www.cashill.com /regional/why_kc_not.htm (1291 words)

	Internet Obituary Network, Obituary for Harry S. Truman, American President (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In 1926 Truman won the seat of presiding judge for the county, and though Tom Pendergast had helped rally popular support for his campaign it was with the understanding that Truman's loyalty could not be bought.
		The Pendergasts delved deeper into gangster activities, and one of Truman's last dealings with Tom Pendergast was accepting his advice to run for the Senate in 1934.
		Tom Pendergast was indicted but the lengthy investigation had showed Senator Truman clear of even the most minor corruption or wrong-doing, Roosevelt scarcely modified his behavior.
	obits.com /trumanharry.html (1555 words)

	Truman Biography - Surprise Victory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Pendergast had been convicted of income tax evasion and was sentenced to serve a prison term.
		While his foes always made capital out of his affiliations with the so-called Pendergast machine, Truman never tried to conceal the fact that it was with Pendergast's help that he got his political start.
		He even attended Pendergast's funeral in January of 1945 putting into practice his view that ingratitude was one of the worst of sins.
	www.krohm.com /tewsp/nl/nl3.htm (232 words)

	MSN Encarta - Printer-friendly - Harry Truman
		Jim Pendergast, Mike’s son, persuaded his father to give Truman permission to enter a four-way Democratic primary for an eastern Jackson County judgeship, which was actually a job to supervise county roads and buildings.
		In 1926 Tom Pendergast, Mike’s other son, supported Truman for a four-year term as presiding judge of the county with full authority over county roads, buildings, and taxes.
		Although the Pendergast machine was strong, with his characteristic bluntness, Truman told Pendergast he would fire any man who failed to do an honest job.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /text_761557001___4/Harry_Truman.html (1898 words)

	Truman Library - Pendergast (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In the Democratic primary, he was backed by Tom Pendergast’s "goat" faction, and thereafter won election to that office.
		Pendergast suggested to Truman that he run for United States Senate, and provided the backing of his Kansas City machine in Truman’s 1934 successful primary and general election races.
		Pendergast died on January 26, 1945, just after Truman’s inauguration as Vice President of the United States; consequently he was not alive, when Truman ascended to the presidency in April, 1945.
	www.bonus.com /contour/Truman_Kids/http@@/www.trumanlibrary.org/trivia/penderga.htm (580 words)

	American Experience \| Truman \| Special Features
		Pendergast's uncle, Tom Pendergast, ran the Kansas City Democratic political machine.
		Involved in numerous illegitimate activities, from gunrunning and prostitution to bootlegging and narcotics, Pendergast needed a clean-cut candidate to run for commissioner of Jackson County, Missouri.
		The soldiers of Battery D supported their captain, and Tom Pendergast pulled all the strings he could.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/truman/sfeature/sf_early.html (974 words)

	kansas city downtown development: rebirth of two pendergast buildings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Two buildings connected with Tom Pendergast, who ran the political machine in Kansas City during the early 1900's, are being reborn.
		Tom took over the Kansas City Democratic Party in 1911 with the passing of his brother.
		Tom used his influence on large blocks of voters to get political friends into power.
	downtownkc.typepad.com /downtown_kansas_city/2005/04/rebirth_of_two_.html (283 words)

	Pendergast! by Lawrence H. Larsen and Nancy J. Hulston (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Born in St. Joseph, Missouri, in 1872, Tom Pendergast moved to Kansas City around 1890 to work for his brother James, founder of the Pendergast "Goat" faction in Kansas City Democratic politics.
		In 1911, Pendergast became head of the Goats, and over the next fifteen years he created a powerful political machine that used illegal voting and criminal enforcers to gain power.
		In 1939 Pendergast, who was believed to be the largest bettor on horse racing in the United States, was jailed for income tax evasion, and he died in disgrace in 1945.
	www.umsystem.edu /upress/fall1997/larsen.htm (398 words)

	Jazz/Jerry Jazz Musician/"Kansas City Jazz: From Ragtime to Bebop" author Chuck Haddix interview
		Tom Pendergast was a saloon owner, and he was a gambler, so he fought to advance those things in Kansas City.
		Pendergast was able to fend him off for a while, but eventually Stark joined forces with J. Edward Hoover and the local district attorney Maurice Milligan in an effort to clean the city up.
		Pendergast was indicted on income tax evasion and the political machine fell apart at that point, and the cleanup began in earnest, eliminating some of the work for the musicians.
	www.jerryjazzmusician.com /linernotes/kansas_city_jazz.html (5711 words)

	Golf Digest: Watson's world is turning (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		He for sure did it in Kansas City, where he sold shirts, collars and hats until Tom Pendergast, the notorious political boss of the heartland, decided Harry ought to run for office for the greater good of Kansas City, Harry Truman and especially Tom Pendergast.
		Tom's great-grandfather, the lawyer I.N. Watson, gained notice in the 1930s by crusading against, and helping put in jail, a mighty Kansas City politician who'd been up to no good for a long time: Tom Pendergast.
		Tom was leading after Saturday, I believe, and had a chance to win his first major since '83.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0HFI/is_8_50/ai_55158491 (1396 words)

	PostPoems - Mary McElroy, the City Manager's daughter. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Pendergast dynasty was established by Alderman Jim Pendergast from the proceeds of a horse race; Tom Pendergast wound up gambling on every horse race in the country in a single day, and what he did to cover his losses got him busted for income tax evasion.
		That was when Tom Pendergast "got things done" and people had plenty of fun, so much so that reformers thought law and order had completely broken down.
		As the Pendergast machine fell in 1939, she was hurt to the quick by the harsh criticism of her visionary father, who had, after all, gotten so much done for the people of Kansas City.
	www.postpoems.com /cgi-bin/displaypoem.cgi?pid=334718 (3146 words)

	Truman Library - Edgar C. Faris, Jr. Oral History Interview (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		He had known Tom Pendergast for a good many years, along with all the other politicians in Kansas City, because Kansas City was not too large a city in those days.
		Pendergast myself, personally, but I also knew his daughter Marceline and his son Bud, and having been at Rockhurst, and having been an athlete there, why, I knew Marceline well, and Bud Pendergast -- he went to Rockhurst too.
		Pendergast wouldn't have sent a wire if it was anything that was illegal or not proper, but he did call him a couple of times long distance.
	www.bonus.com /contour/Truman_Kids/http@@/www.trumanlibrary.org/oralhist/faris.htm (17288 words)

	STAR POWER Speakers Bureau, real estate agents benefit from a live event.
		Tom joined Bennett Williams, Inc. in 1990 and was consistently the top-producing agent in the firm.
		Tom was inducted into the Better Homes and Gardens Hall of Fame in 1998, the same year he joined Coldwell Banker Bob Yost.
		Tom has lived in York County, PA all his life and he and his wife have three children.
	www.gostarpower.com /speakers/speaker.cfm?id=19 (613 words)

	HARRY TRUMAN Autograph
		Jim's uncle was Tom Pendergast, political boss of Kansas City and Jackson County, Mo., and it was Jim who encouraged his friend to enter politics.
		Tom Pendergast was convicted on bribery and tax evasion charges in 1939.
		After his release from prison, Pendergast spent his last years estranged from his family and old friends.
	www.historyforsale.com /html/prodetails.asp?documentid=179373 (355 words)

	Experience Kansas City - Harry S Truman
		While Pendergast was known for his "strong-arm" techniques and corruption, Truman realized the only way to work for the people of Jackson County was to work with the Pendergast machine.
		Truman's association with Pendergast, however, made him out to be a tool of the machine in the eyes of many.
		Pendergast had served jail time for tax evasion and Truman was widely criticized for attending the services, but Truman simply contended Pendergast had been a friend.
	www.experiencekc.com /truman.html (1427 words)

	PBS - JAZZ A Film By Ken Burns: Places Spaces & Changing Faces - Kansas City
		Boss Pendergast's silent ally, Johnny Lanzia — "the Al Capone of Kansas City" — screened all candidates for the police force in order to weed out anyone who seemed overzealous, and policemen could be seen day and night rolling dice alongside civilian customers in the gambling establishments that lined 12th Street.
		Tom Vitale has the story behind Count Basie's signature tune, a selection from National Public Radio's list of the 100 most important American musical works of the 20th Century.
		Among the most significant was the downfall of Boss Tom Pendergast in the late 30s, and the reforms that followed.
	www.pbs.org /jazz/places/places_kansas_city.htm (1578 words)

	Capt. Harry Truman: Artilleryman & Future President
		Tom's nephew, Jim Pendergast, served in Truman's regiment (the 129th Field Artillery).
		Jim Pendergast persuaded his uncle to back Truman, who was elected and served as judge (an administrative rather than judicial post) of the county court until 1934.
		Jim's uncle was Tom Pendergast, a powerful leader of the Democrats in western Missouri, who agreed to back Truman.
	www.worldwar1.com /dbc/truman.htm (4089 words)

	Harry S Truman NHS - A Most Uncommon Common Man
		It so happened the "Boss" Tom Pendergast, who ran Jackson County politics at the time, was looking for a candidate for administrative judge.
		Pendergast's nephew, Jim, knew Harry Truman from army days and remembered Truman's interest in politics.
		Aware of his friend's fine reputation among Independence citizens, young Pendergast asked him to run in the Democratic primary.
	www.nps.gov /hstr/learning_place/common_man/common_man_page_3.htm (219 words)

	STAR POWER Real estate tool that will increase your business.
		Before Tom Pendergast got into real estate, he was in the construction business for 11 years.
		Tom and his team of seven specialize in relocation, seller representation, and new-home and existing-home sales.
		Tom has lived in York County, Pennsylvania, all his life and presently resides there with his wife, Cathy, and their children, Mary, Elizabeth, and James.
	www.gostarpower.com /club/members.cfm?clubid=50102 (110 words)

	TIME Magazine Archive Article -- Hell in Kansas City -- Jan. 08, 1940 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Since Boss Tom Pendergast went to jail for income-tax evasion (TIME, May 29), the man more or less running turbid Kansas City, Mo. has been Mayor Bryce Bryan Smith.
		Last week Tom Pendergast's long political arm reached out of his jail cell.
		What was left of the Pendergast machine pulled a squeeze play in City Council, squeezed in a 73-year-old onetime insurance man named William M. Drennon as City Manager.
	www.time.com /time/archive/printout/0,23657,763144,00.html (185 words)

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