Although he only briefly held elected office as an alderman, Pendergast, in his capacity as Chairman of the Jackson County Democratic Party, was able to use his large network of family and friends to help elect politicians (through voter fraud in some cases) and hand out government contracts and patronage jobs. (SC 881-338). Tom Pendergast Tom Pendergast married Catherine Pendergast (born McLaughlin). from there. Please enable JavaScript in your browser's settings to use this part of Geni. Psh, Virginia We encourage you to research and examine these records to determine their accuracy. Elizabeth L. PENDERGAST b. August 14, Sara - Tom . 's nephew. According to historians Lawrence H. Larsen and Nancy J. Hulston, the Pendergast machine reached its apex of electoral fraud in the election of November 1936 as it produced between 70,000 and 80,000 ghost votes. The West Bottoms were then an immigrant section of town located at the "bottom" of the bluffs overlooking the Missouri River above which spread the more prosperous sections of Kansas City. 1910s. discoveries. The surname Pendergast was first found in Pembrokeshire (Welsh: Sir Benfro), a county in south-west Wales, anciently part of the Welsh kingdom of Deheubarth, where they held a family seat from early times and were Lords of the manor of Prendergast and estates in that shire. Enter a grandparent's name. PENDERGAST, b. ca. Messages marked with his red scrawl were used to secure all manner of favors. The mayor would hold little formal power. Agnes HEFFERNAN ( - 1940), Pictured above: Bridget Agnes Hunger and disease took the lives of many Irish people and many more chose to leave their homeland to escape the horrific conditions. Maurice, Lord of Prendergast was a great friend and neighbor of Strongbow, Earl of Pembroke. Coinciding with the rapid expansion of Pendergasts businesses in the 1920s and 1930s, Tom Pendergast consolidated his political power at the end of 1925 and maintained a firm grip until the late 1930s. in Hot Springs, Fall River County, SD. Kansas City in the Jazz Age & Great Depression, Long Struggle Over Black Voting Rights and the Origins of the Pendergast Machine, Pendergast Owned or Affiliated Businesses, Decline and Fall of the Pendergast Machine, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License, Home: 5650 Ward Parkway (residence); Jefferson Hotel at Sixth and Wyandotte Streets (political headquarters until he closed the building in 1919); 1908 Main St. (political headquarters from 1927-1939), Claim to fame: younger brother of James F. Pendergast, political boss of Kansas City, Political affiliations: Democratic Party, "goat" faction, Jackson Democratic Club. For most of his life, Pendergasts wager that the public would tolerate corruption in exchange for other benefits had paid offfar better than he might have imagined in 1894 when he came to Kansas City to operate a saloon with his brother. Pennsylvania when he enlisted. These trees can change over time as users edit, remove, or otherwise modify the data in their trees. Clinton PENDERGAST (1876 - 1918) The following information is confirmed thru census records in Ripley County Indiana. It was unveiled by H. J. 21 February 1972 Thomas A Pendergast of Mamaroneck, Westchester County, New York was born on May 14, 1928, and died at age 64 years old in March 1993. . Research into early immigration and passenger lists revealed many immigrants bearing the name Pendergast: Some of the first settlers of this family name were: 2000- 2023 Swyrich Corporation, all rights reserved. and died there in 1205. People . HAMPSON ( - ) Edward PENDERGAST (2), 1862 Promoted to Full Lieutenant 2nd Class on 01 June 1865 (Not Note: 31 July 1922, d. U.S. 1879 in Niagara Thomas Joseph Pendergast (July 22, 1872 January 26, 1945), also known as T.J. Pendergast, was an American political boss who controlled Kansas City and Jackson County, Missouri, from 1925 to 1939. HENRY (HENRI), b. ca. Of course, it must be remembered that even Pendergasts achievements were fleeting. b. ca. Spouse (2): Eliza PENDERGRASS, b. ca. STOKOE ( - ) You can contact the owner of the tree to get more information. Skip Ancestry main menu Main Menu. As such, he was the biggest rival to Pendergasts goat faction. For decades after Pendergasts fall and until the revival of recent years, downtown Kansas City hollowed out to a neglected shell with few reminders of its former glory. 1851 in Ripley Co., Indiana Gathered from those who lived during the same time period , were born in the same place, or who have a family name in common. Mother: Jocelyne MEUNIER ( - ), Spouse: Mike Other noteworthy companies with Pendergast connections included the T.J. Pendergast Wholesale Liquor Co. (renamed Pendergast Distributing Co. during Prohibition), Atlas Beverage Co., City Beverage Co. (sole distributor of Anheuser-Busch products in Kansas City), the W.A. They had 2 children. Youll get hints when we find information about your relatives . PENDERGAST, b. ca. Leave a message for others who see this profile. Mother: Rosanna BAKER, b. ca. We encourage you to research and examine these records to determine their accuracy. You can contact the owner of the tree to get more information. Explore genealogy for Tom Pendergast died 1929 Glace Bay, Nova Scotia including research + more in the free family tree community. "Non-Selected Papers" In the Rev. Laureen KERN b. February 9, 1962 at b. ca. Location FHL US/CAN Film Sources: If this has been done, I would be glad to have a copy of the list and later go over it with you with a view of making such changes as might be necessary and proper. In a prior letter on the same topic, Governor Park had enclosed a list of the employees payroll. App. United States. PENDERGAST (3), b. ca. The investigation of the origin of the name Pendergast revealed many spelling variations including Prendergast, Prendegast, Pendergast, Pendegast, Prendregast, Pendergrass, Pendergrist, Pender and many more. 138 results. Mother: Maude ??? Tom Pendergast had 1 child. Historical sketch of the Sixty-eighth Regiment, Indiana Volunteers, V. PENDERGAST, b. Larsen, Lawrence H. and Nancy J. Hulston, "Criminal Aspects Of The Pendergast Machine", Matlin, John S. "Political party machines of the 1920s and 1930s: Tom Pendergast and The Kansas City Democratic machine". 1727 in Westmorland Co., Virginia. He became wealthy in the process, although his addiction to gambling, especially horse racing, later led to a large accumulation of personal debts. Voters approved the new city charter. File Married 19 April 1868 in Houston County, Minnesota. Those who benefited from machine patronage and received jobs were expected to remain loyal to the party line and pay an annual lug, or percentage of their income. Boss Tom was soon to become inmate Tom. Home of Tom and Carolyn Pendergast at 5650 Ward Parkway. Married: 9 August 1920, Pictured above: Robert Nathan BOYCE (b. April 11, 1923, d. With one single test, you can discover your genetic origins and find family you nenver know you had. CONTENT MAY BE COPYRIGHTED BY WIKITREE COMMUNITY MEMBERS. Skip Ancestry main menu Main Menu. Senators James A. Reed and Harry S. Truman were closely associated with the machine, and critics of the machine accused Governor Guy Park, elected in 1932, of being such a devoted Pendergast crony that the governors mansion gained the moniker, Uncle Toms Cabin. Pendergast sometimes forwarded handwritten notes, such as this May 1933 letter and this January 1934 letter, to Governor Park, with instructions about candidates for government jobs. You can contact the owner of the tree to get more information. Discover your family history in millions of family trees and more than a billion birth,marriage, death, census, and miltary records. 1921, d. Feb 22, 1998, Father: Don Historical sketch of the Sixty-eighth Regiment, Indiana Volunteers, The economy and population boomed in the 1920s, especially in relation to its peers, and thanks to his involvement in construction programs like the Ten-Year Plan, Kansas City and its people seemed to weather the Great Depression better than most other places. In the end, though, Tom Pendergast succumbed to a combination of overconfidence and the need for ever-larger infusions of cash to fuel his one insatiable vice (that is, outside of political corruption and smoking): betting on horse races. Home; . Quite conveniently for the gamblers and other criminals under Lazias influence, Pendergast also placed Lazia in charge of patronage hiring in the citys police department. Despite Prohibition, Pendergast's machine and a bribed police force allowed alcohol and gambling. Pendergast also extended his rule into neighboring cities such as Omaha, Nebraska, and Wichita, Kansas, where members of his family had set up branches of the Ready-Mixed Concrete company. Tom lived in 1910, at address, Connecticut. Thanks to nonexistent local enforcement of Prohibition, Kansas Citys nightlife boomed; a famous style of jazz emerged. The former Jackson Democratic Club building from which machine boss Tom Pendergast influenced politics in Kansas City and much of Missouri during the 1920s and 1930s, and . Thomas A Pendergast . b. ca. After Pendergast was convicted of income tax evasion, Missouri Governor Lloyd C. Stark sought to unseat Truman in the 1940 US Senate election. This database contains family trees submitted to Ancestry by users who have indicated that their tree can only be viewed by Ancestry members to whom they have granted permission to see their tree. Discover the meaning and history behind your last name and get a sense of identity and discover who you are and where you come from. K. MILLER b. abt. 1910 United States Federal Census. Another 173 words (12 lines of text) covering the years 1641, 1660, 1689, 1725, 1660, 1709, 1703 and 1710 are included under the topic Early Pendergast History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible. Mother: Dorothy Jean PENDERGAST b. (Added Author) Historical Person Search Search Search Results Results Tom Pendergast (1847 - 1910) Try FREE for 14 days Try FREE for 14 days How do we create a person's profile? Born in Toowoomba, Queensland on 3 Feb 1929 to Herbert Randolph Pendergast and Maria Elizabeth (Lizzie) Rogash. Residence: Elrod, Ripley County, Indiana Record information. After Truman graduated from high school, his family moved to Kansas City and settled across the street from Tom Pendergast's brother, Mike. 7 January, 1927 d. 16 November, 2005, Father: John Even businesses not directly associated with Pendergast routinely had to make payments, often as much as 5 or 10 percent of gross revenue, to the machine in order to do business in Kansas City and avoid various forms of harassment or problems with licensing and city regulators. The Pendergast stamp was to be found in the packing plant industries, local politics, bogus construction contracts, and the jazz scene in those cities as well. We collect and match historical records that Ancestry users have contributed to their family trees to create each persons profile. (Subject) O ther than Tammany Hall in New York, the Pendergast machine in Kansas City was the longest-running and most thorough melding of vice and politics ever seen in the United States. Beyond mere drinking establishments, saloons in the late 19 th century American West could be used to launch political careers. 1640 in Ireland, This database contains family trees submitted to Ancestry by users who have indicated that their tree can be viewed by all Ancestry subscribers. Raymond PENDERGAST (1930 - ) Thomas claimed to have attended St. Mary's College in St. Mary's, Kansas but records dispel this claim. 1712 in Ireland, Thomas passed away at death place. Civil War letter from E. Pendergast. Holton. Shortly after attending the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia in 1936, he was taken ill and later diagnosed with colon cancer and was in poor health for the remainder of his life. While serving as an associate to Jimas did five of the other seven Pendergast siblingsTom rose quickly, from First Ward deputy constable in 1894, to deputy marshal in 1896, and to superintendent of streets in 1900. Pendergast understood that a broad swath of constituents would tolerate corruption as long as they perceived that city services and infrastructure was being developed for the broader public benefit. Film 1550178. 12 January 1869 in Hokah, Houston County, MN. Virginia, d. ca. PENDERGRASS (DE PENDERGRASS), b. ca. The following is a copy of a letter sent to me by Maureen Clunne a Pendergast descendant:- Colonial Secretary's letter dated 24th February 1824. Falls, Welland, Ont., d. 13 January 1957, Father: George Gathered from those who lived during the same time period , were born in the same place, or who have a family name in common. 1991), Australian F58 athletics shotput competitor and LW12.1 classified para-alpine skier at the 2014 Winter Paralympics, Leeanna Pendergast (b. Mother: ?,, b. ca. We collect and match historical records that Ancestry users have contributed to their family trees to create each persons profile. Edward Pendergast was a soldier We encourage you to research and examine these . Build your family tree online ; Share photos and videos ; Smart Matching technology He had indeed experienced a heart attack and was in overall declining health by 1936, and was thereafter incapable of climbing a set of stairs. Pictured at right: Dewitt [1] It's a rough draft and needs to be edited. Search for yourself and well build your family tree together, Do not sell or share my personal information. 1610 in Ireland, d. aft. J.C. Nichols Company architect Edward Tanner designed the house. Clinton Pendergast, Father: 1. Thomas Pendergast . Enlisted as a Corporal on 19 August 1862 Tom had 5 siblings: George Pendergast, Mary Pendergast and 3 other siblings. Pendergast created jobs and built huge portions of Kansas Citys infrastructure, much of which still stands today, and aside from dealing mostly in cash to obscure the flow of money, he hardly attempted to downplay the wealth he earned from public contracts. Thomas Joseph Pendergast, also known to close friends as "TJ", was born in St. Joseph, Missouri. [1], Thomas Joseph Pendergast was born July 22, 1873, in St. Joseph Mo., he was the last of nine children. As the goats expanded out of the First Ward, certain demographic patterns stuck; unlike the old-guard Democratic Party associated with white Southerners, the local Democratic machine constituents were diverse and more likely to be Catholic, first- or second-generation immigrants of Italian, Irish, or Mexican descent, or African American. b. ca. James retired in 1910 and died the next year after he had named Tom as his successor. Pruett Pendergast may bear comparison to various big-city bosses, but his open alliance with hardened criminals, his cynical subversion of the democratic process, his monarchistic style of living, his increasingly insatiable gambling habit, his grasping for a business empire, and his promotion of Kansas City as a wide-open town with every kind of vice imaginable, combined with his professed compassion for the poor and very real role as city builder, made him bigger than life, difficult to characterize. Truman brushed aside the criticism and said simply: "He was always my friend and I have always been his. It was a very bitter campaign, which made both men lifelong enemies. Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana. The following history and details are not confirmed. Crosse, WI. These trees can change over time as users edit, remove, or otherwise modify the data in their trees. Spouse: Elizabeth Military Information: So complete was the marriage of underworld to political world, that Tom Pendergast - the son of Irish immigrants and unabashedly known as "Boss Tom" to everyone in town - controlled not just the . Upon his return to England he once again returned to Ireland and was rewarded with lands in Ireland in Waterford and south Mayo. It later served in Tennessee, WIKITREE PROTECTS MOST SENSITIVE INFORMATION BUT ONLY TO THE EXTENT STATED IN THE TERMS OF SERVICE AND PRIVACY POLICY. If you would like to view one of these trees in its entirety, you can contact the owner of the tree to request permission to see the tree. 1735 in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, d. 15 November 1797, Father: Garrett His father worked as a teamster. in the Revolutionary War, and enlisted in 1779. Truman was re-elected after US Attorney Maurice Milligan, who had prosecuted Pendergast, also entered the race, which caused Milligan and Stark to split the anti-Pendergast vote. In the Monroe Hotel, adjacent to his 1908 Main headquarters on the north side, an elevator was installed and a passageway created to connect the two buildings and allow him access to his office. At the machines peak influence, the Sanitary Service Co. contracted with the municipal government to collect the citys refuse; Tom owned nearly half of the companys shares. Pendergast had endorsed Stark, the heir to an agricultural fortune and known for promoting the Golden Delicious variety of apples, for governor in 1936. IMPORTANT PRIVACY NOTICE & DISCLAIMER: YOU HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY TO USE CAUTION WHEN DISTRIBUTING PRIVATE INFORMATION. This is confirmed by the erection of a plaque on a memorial to the north of the cemetery at Moonbah on the side of the road - south of the creek bridge. Pendergasts blossoming political power moved directly in line with his business interests. 23 February 1841 in Ripley Co., Indiana, Lee Raymond PENDERGAST (1930 - ) ?, b. in Richmond Co., Virginia, Edward PENDERGAST, Murrays appointment as WPA administrator for Missouri gave Pendergast control over as many as 80,000 jobs statewide, on top of tens of thousands of patronage jobs around Kansas City. and County Mayo for his efforts, thus, the family line extends Pendergast. This database contains family trees submitted to Ancestry by users who have indicated that their tree can only be viewed by Ancestry members to whom they have granted permission to see their tree.These trees can change over time as users edit, remove, or otherwise modify the data in their trees. Minnesota. Tom Pendergast passed away on 1929. National Archives Pension Record, #SC 881338 For those families that survived the journey, all three of these things were often attained through much hard work and perseverance. This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Pendergast research. With the help of the Pendergast organization, Truman was elected to that and later to a similar county-wide position. James Pendergist 8/20/10 . Mother: Elizabeth L. PENDERGAST b. August 14, 1921, "What are the 5,000 Most Common Last Names in the U.S.?". Additionally, many elections were fixed to keep political friends in power. Although Truman was derisively named "the senator from Pendergast" by his opponents, he does not appear to have had a close personal relationship with Pendergast himself. Mother: Sarah Agnes McCORMICK (1898 - May 6th 1988), Father: Paul Leave your condolences to the family on this memorial page or send flowers to show you care. [7][8], Pentergast's headquarters at 1908 Main are listed on the Kansas City Register of Historic Places. He was also vice-president of Ready-Mixed Concrete Co., which supplied concrete to the prodigious construction projects that made up Kansas Citys $50 million Ten-Year Plana program approved by voters in 1931 to counter the economic implosion of the Great Depression with new projects or updates including the Jackson County Courthouse, Municipal Auditorium, City Hall, Police Headquarters, streets, sewers, water works, parks facilities, signs, and sidewalks. In 1939, he was convicted of income tax evasion and served 15 months in a federal prison. all. Proven ancestral connection United States. (A local urban legend in which bodies of Pendergast opponents were buried under the Brush Creek concrete was finally put to rest when the concrete was torn up for a renewal project in the 1980s.) Pendergast at Democratic National Convention in 1936, Chairman of Jackson County Democratic Club. 7 January, 1927 d. 16 November, 2005, Michael Richard BOYCE Have you taken a DNA test? d. 3 January 1925 in Hot Springs, Fall River County, SD [11] In early 1945, the newly-inaugurated Vice President shocked many when he attended the Pendergast funeral. login . If you would like to view one of these trees in its entirety, you can contact the owner of the tree to request permission to see the tree. Glen With one single test, you can discover your genetic origins and find family you nenver know you had. Find the obituary of Tom Pendergast (1945 - 2020) from Wynantskill, NY. You can contact the owner of the tree to get more information.
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