Thomas Pendergast Biography

Thomas Pendergast biography

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NAME: Thomas Pendergast
OCCUPATION: Political Leader
BIRTH DATE: July 22, 1872
DEATH DATE: January 26, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH: St. Joseph, Missouri
PLACE OF DEATH: Kansas City, Missouri

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Thomas Pendergast was a political boss of Kansas City in the early 20th century.

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Thomas Pendergast was born on July 22, 1872, in St. Joseph, Missouri, and went on to become the head of Kansas City’s Democratic political machine in the mid-1910s. He was a force in state and municipal politics for more than two decades and involved in various criminal activities, ultimately being imprisoned for tax evasion in 1939. Pendergast died on January 26, 1945.