Founded | c.1917 |
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Founded by | Edward "Jelly Roll" Hogan |
Founding location | St. Louis, Missouri, United States |
Years active | 1920s-1930s |
Territory | St. Louis, Missouri |
Ethnicity | Irish-American |
Membership (est.) | 100–150 (est. 1923) |
Criminal activities | Organized crime |
Allies | Cuckoo Gang Russo Gang |
Rivals | Egan's Rats |
The Hogan Gang was a St. Louis–based criminal organization that sold illegal liquor during Prohibition in addition to committing labor slugging, voter intimidation, armed robbery, and murder. Although predominantly Irish-American, the Hogan Gang included several Italian and Jewish mobsters amongst their ranks; most notably, Max "Big Maxie" Greenberg. They fought a notoriously violent gang war with Egan's Rats in the early 1920s.