2023-03 HCA Auctions
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 4/8/2023
The 5" plastic horseshoe as a printed tag, "The Happy Way For the USA, Happy Chandler For President". Albert Benjamin "Happy" Chandler Sr. (1898-1991) was an American politician from Kentucky. He represented Kentucky 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. At the 1960 Democratic National Convention, he sought the party's presidential nomination, as he considered that the front-runner, John F. Kennedy, was "a nice young fellow ... (but) too young for the nomination". Chandler proposed for him to be the presidential nominee, with Kennedy as the nominee for vice-president, but the convention chose Kennedy for president instead.
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