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OFFERING AN AWESOME OLD SOUTHERN POLITICAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN PINBACK BUTTON FROM THE 1935 GUBERNATORIAL RACE OF ALBEET B. "HAPPY" CHANDLER OF KENTUCKY, BIG AS LIFE MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL COMMISSIONER, GOVERNOR AND SENATOR OF THE BLUEGRASS STATE
A REAL SCARCE VINTAGE ITEM WITH YOUTHFUL PHOTO OF "HAPPY"!
Albert Benjamin "Happy" Chandler Sr.
(July 14, 1898 – June 15, 1991) was an American politician from the Commonwealth of Kentucky. He represented the Commonwealth in the U.S. Senate and served as its 44th and 49th governor. Aside from his political positions, he also served as the second Commissioner of Baseball from 1945 to 1951 and was inducted into the
Baseball Hall of Fame
in 1982. His grandson, Ben Chandler, later served as congressman for Kentucky's Sixth District.
A multi-sport athlete during his college days at Transylvania College, Chandler briefly considered a career in professional baseball before deciding to pursue a law degree. After graduation, he entered politics and was elected as a Democrat to the Kentucky Senate in 1928. Two years later, he was elected lieutenant governor, serving under Governor Ruby Laffoon. Chandler and Laffoon disagreed on the issue of instituting a state sales tax and when Chandler, the presiding officer in the state senate, worked to block the legislation, Laffoon's allies in the General Assembly stripped him of many of his statutory powers. The tax then passed by a narrow margin. Knowing that Laffoon would try to select his own successor at the Democratic nominating convention, Chandler waited until Laffoon left the state—leaving Chandler as acting governor—and called the legislature into session to enact a mandatory primary election bill. The bill passed, and in the ensuing primary, Chandler defeated Laffoon's choice, Thomas Rhea. He then went on to defeat Republican King Swope by the largest margin of victory for a Kentucky gubernatorial race to that time. As governor, Chandler oversaw the repeal of the sales tax, replacing the lost revenue with new excise taxes and the state's first income tax. He also enacted a major reorganization of state government, realizing significant savings for the state. He used these savings to pay off the state debt and improve the state's education and transportation systems.
Convinced that he was destined to become President of the United States, Chandler challenged Senate Majority Leader Alben Barkley for his U.S. Senate seat in 1938. During the campaign, President Franklin D. Roosevelt came to the state to campaign for Barkley, and Chandler lost a close race. The following year, Kentucky's other senator, Marvel Mills Logan, died in office, and Chandler resigned as governor so his successor could appoint him to the vacant seat. A fiscal conservative and disciple of Virginia's Harry F. Byrd, Chandler opposed parts of Roosevelt's New Deal and openly disagreed with the president's decision to prioritize European operations in World War II over the war in the Pacific. In 1945, Chandler resigned his senate seat to succeed the late Kenesaw Mountain Landis
as commissioner of baseball. His most significant action as commissioner was the approval of Jackie Robinson's contract with the Brooklyn Dodgers, effectively integrating Major League Baseball
. He also established the first pension fund for Major League players, earning him the title "the players' commissioner". Baseball owners were upset with Chandler's governance, however, and did not renew his contract in 1951.
Following his term as commissioner, Chandler returned to Kentucky and won a second term as governor in 1955. The
major accomplishments of his second term were enforcing the racial integration of the state's public schools and establishing a medical school at the University of Kentucky
which was later named the Chandler Medical Center in his honor. Following his second term as governor, his political influence began to wane as he made three more unsuccessful runs for governor in 1963, 1967, and 1971. His endorsement of dark-horse candidate Wallace G. Wilkinson was seen as critical to Wilkinson's successful gubernatorial campaign in 1988. Wilkinson later resisted calls to remove Chandler from the University of Kentucky board of trustees following Chandler's use of a racial epithet during a board meeting in 1988. In his retirement, Chandler made numerous public appearances and remained active in state politics and events. Chandler died a month before his ninety-third birthday; at the time, he was the oldest living former Kentucky governor as well as the earliest serving former governor.
CHANDLER, Albert Benjamin (Happy),
(grandfather of A.B. Chandler), a Senator from Kentucky; born in Corydon, Henderson County, Ky., July 14, 1898; attended the public schools; attended Harvard University; served as a private in the United States Army 1918-1919; graduated from Transylvania College, Lexington, Ky., 1921, and from the law department of the University of Kentucky at Lexington 1924; admitted to the bar in 1925 and commenced practice of law in Versailles, Ky.; master commissioner of the Woodford circuit in 1928; member, State senate 1930-1931; receiver of the Inter-Southern Life Insurance Co., in 1932; lieutenant governor 1931-1935; Governor of Kentucky 1935 until his resignation October 9, 1939; appointed on October 10, 1939, as a Democrat and subsequently elected on November 5, 1940, to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Marvel Mills Logan; reelected in 1942 and served from October 10, 1939, until his resignation on November 1, 1945; resigned to become commissioner of organized baseball 1945-1950; engaged in the practice of law, tobacco farming, and the publication of a weekly newspaper; again Governor of Kentucky 1955-1959; unsuccessful gubernatorial candidate in 1963; named to the Kentucky Sports Hall of Fame in 1957; commissioner, Continental Professional Football League 1965; trustee of the Ty Cobb Foundation, the University of Kentucky, and Transylvania college; served as Democratic National Committeeman from Kentucky; was a resident of Versailles, Ky., until his death, June 15, 1991; interment in churchyard of Pisgah Presbyterian Church, near Versailles.
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MAY GOD BLESS YOU ALL...
He Leadeth Me
In pastures green?
Not always; sometimes He
who knoweth best, in kindness leadeth me
In many ways where heavy shadows be.
Out of the sunshine warm and soft and bright...
Out of the sunshine into the darkest night,
I oft would faint with sorrow and affright,
Only for this...I know He holds my hand;
so whether in the green or desert land
I trust although I may not understand.
And by still waters?
No, not always so;
Ofttimes the heavy tempests round me blow,
And o'er my soul the waters and billows go.
But when the storms beat loudest and I cry
aloud for help, the Master standeth by
And whispers to my soul, "Lo, it is I."
Above the tempest wild I hear Him say,
Beyond this darkness lies a perfect day.
In every path of thine I lead the way.
So whether on the hilltops high and fair
I dwell, or in the sunless valleys where
The shadows lie...what matters?  He is there.
And more than this, where'er the pathway lead
He gives to me no helpless broken reed,
But His own hand, sufficient for my need.
So where He leads me, I can safely go,
And in the blest hereafter I shall know
Why in His wisdom, He hath led me so.
Author Unknown
"BE NOT OVERCOME BY EVIL BUT OVERCOME EVIL WITH GOOD"  Romans 12:21