s well as contractors doing business with the state.
Truman declared, “If they approve my record in the Senate, I will be renominated and I know the voters of Missouri approve my record because I will be renominated.”
In the end, it all came down to St. Louis. Bob Hannegan quietly sent out the word to ward leaders he was for Truman. Lloyd Stark carried outstate Missouri, while Truman carried Kansas City, but as expected, his majority in Jackson County was about a third of what it had been six years earlier. Still, Harry Truman carried St. Louis and eked out a win by less than 8,000 votes.
Lloyd Stark’s political career came to an end, a bitter defeat for a man who had thought the presidency was within his grasp. As it turned out, it would be Harry S. Truman who would become President of the United States.