University of Kentucky Libraries: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History

A. B. "Happy" Chandler Oral History Collection

A. B. "Happy" Chandler Oral History Collection

Repository: 

University of Kentucky Libraries: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History

Subjects: 

A.B. Chandler, Baseball, , Athletes--United States, Baseball commissioners, Governors--Kentucky, Baseball--Management, Baseball--United States, Politicians--Kentucky, Legislators--United States, Lieutenant governors--Kentucky,

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OHCHAN
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Albert Benjamin "Happy" Chandler, born in 1898 in Corydon, served in the Kentucky state senate (1929--1931), was lieutenant governor (1931--1935) and governor (1935--1939, 1955--1959) of Kentucky, was appointed United States senator in 1939 and elected for a second term in 1942, and was a major league baseball commissioner (1945--1951). In this collection Chandler, his political allies and opponents, his staff members and friends, historians, and baseball players discuss his life and career. The complete collection record can be accessed on SPOKEdb, the Nunn Center's online collection catalog: <a href="http://kentuckyoralhistory.org/collections/b-happy-chandler-oral-history...