Robert E. Hannegan

Robert Hannegan
52nd United States Postmaster General
In office
June 30, 1945 – December 15, 1947
PresidentHarry S. Truman
Preceded byFrank C. Walker
Succeeded byJesse M. Donaldson
Chair of the Democratic National Committee
In office
January 23, 1944 – October 29, 1947
Preceded byFrank C. Walker
Succeeded byJ. Howard McGrath
27th Commissioner of Internal Revenue
In office
October 9, 1943 – January 22, 1944
PresidentFranklin D. Roosevelt
Preceded byGuy T. Helvering
Succeeded byHarold Graves (Acting)
Personal details
Born
Robert Emmet Hannegan

(1903-06-30)June 30, 1903
St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.
DiedOctober 6, 1949(1949-10-06) (aged 46)
St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.
Resting placeCalvary Cemetery
Political partyDemocratic
SpouseIrma Protzmann
EducationSaint Louis University (LLB)

Robert Emmet Hannegan (June 30, 1903 – October 6, 1949) was an American 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. At the conclusion of his political career in 1947, Hannegan and his business partner Fred Saigh purchased the St. Louis Cardinals, a Major League Baseball team. But Hannegan, by then ill with heart disease, sold his share of the team ownership to Saigh a few months before his death.