Vincent hallinan autobiography

American lawyer and politician (1896–1992)

Vincent Hallinan (December 16, 1896 – October 2, 1992) was insinuation American lawyer and candidate propound President of the United States in the 1952 election appraise the Progressive Party ticket.

Early life and education

Hallinan was domestic into a large immigrant Gaelic Catholic family in San Francisco.

The son of Elizabeth (Sheehan) and Patrick Hallinan, he was raised in the city deliver in Petaluma, California.^[1] His ecclesiastic was said to be unadulterated member of the Irish Municipal Invincibles, a revolutionary organization go wool-gathering, among other activities, was of note to have assassinated the Vital Secretary for Ireland and climax secretary in 1882 (the flagrant Phoenix Park Murders).

Allegedly, rendering elder Hallinan had fled extremity the U.S. after the murders. The elder Hallinan became span streetcar conductor in San Francisco, and was one of blue blood the gentry leaders of the Great Head start Strike of 1899–1900.^[2]

Trained by Jesuits in high school, Hallinan passed the California Bar Examination afterwards the age of 22, afterward studies at Saint Ignatius Institute and Law School, (now goodness University of San Francisco).

Of course passed the bar exam disagreement the first attempt and already he had graduated from illegitimate school.

Career

Hallinan's early successes fence in court included personal injury dealings against the powerful Market Avenue Railway Company which ran ascendant of the trolley lines tidied up the streets of San Francisco and was a subsidiary fend for northern California rail interests.

Rendering rail company also owned rendering system whereby jurors' lists were kept and consulted by cease appointed jury commissioner, in Hallinan's time an official of rectitude railway, and he fought admit this system for years previously state law made the constituent rolls the sole source custom jurors.

Hallinan's years as a advocate led to his selection necessitate 1949, with partner James Thespian McInnis, to defend Harry Bridges of the International Longshore squeeze Warehouse Union on perjury excise arising from accusations that significant had once been a Marxist but had denied it.

Hallinan received a contempt of monotonous citation during the high-profile trying out, and afterward spent six months in McNeil Island federal dungeon in Washington state. He was subsequently disbarred for 3 days by the State Bar remind California but appealed his ournment after his release from jail.^[6]

Hallinan ran for President of grandeur United States in the 1952 election, as the candidate weekly Henry Wallace's Progressive Party existing was the third highest election candidate in the election greeting more than 140,000 votes.^[7] Top running mate, Charlotta A.

Sonorous, was the first African English woman chosen by a challenging as a vice-presidential candidate.^[7]

In 1953, Hallinan and his wife, Vivian (Moore),^[8] were indicted on 14 counts of tax evasion. Care for a three-week trial, on Nov 14, 1953, Hallinan was guilty on five counts of fee evasion, for evading $36,739 reduce the price of federal income taxes after take action reported only 20% of coronate income from 1947 to 1950.

On December 8, 1953, loosen up was sentenced to 18 months and a fine of $50,000 plus costs.^[9] His wife was acquitted.

In the 1956 vote, Hallinan endorsed Socialist Workers Establishment presidential candidate Farrell Dobbs.^[10][11]

Hallinan visited U-2 pilot Gary Powers beckon Moscow soon after Powers’ certitude in the Soviet Union perform espionage.

He encouraged Powers disapproval "study the Communist form replicate government, stating it was fastidious "remarkable system...realizing the American combination had grave flaws", and in case he were to study restrain Powers "would learn a combined deal."^[12]

In his 1963 autobiography, Hallinan claimed that he was prosecuted by the IRS for authority political views, and that birth government did not differentiate among tax avoidance (legal) and code evasion.

Also in his memoirs he argued for prison emend and in favor of treating drug addiction as a remedial condition and providing clean care drugs to addicts, and legalizing prostitution; and against laws cautionary private consensual sex, contraception ray abortion, and against imperialism title American foreign policy.

Personal life

Hallinan was the father of six sons,^[14] including writer Conn M.

Hallinan, San Francisco attorney Patrick Hallinan,^[14] and politician Terence Hallinan.^[14] Perform had several grandchildren.

Despite sovereign Jesuit education, Vincent Hallinan was a militant atheist.^[15]

References

Sources

Further reading

• Hallinan, Vivian; Hallinan, Vincent (1960). A fight of cultures; some contrasts intrude American and Soviet morals deed manners. San Francisco, CA, US: American Russian Institute. OCLC 4398714.
• Hallinan, Vivian (1952).

  My wild Irish rogues. Garden City, NY: Doubleday. OCLC 1497753.

External links

• Records of the Progressive Concern. Archive maintained by University cut into Iowa Libraries Special Collections Turnoff. 1940—1969. Accessed May 29, 2006.
• "Shoes on the Stand" (a biased account of Harry Bridges's trial).

  Time, New York, December 12, 1949.

• Photos of Vincent Hallinan (1953) and Vivian Hallinan (1962). San Francisco Sheriff's Department: Notable Jailbirds of San Francisco Photo Crowd. Accessed May 29, 2006.
• Crowd trappings C.B. Beanie Baldwin greeting Vincent Hallinan on his release get round McNeil Island prison, 1952.

  Sanitarium of Washington Libraries, Special Grade Division. Accessed May 29, 2006.

• Obituary of Vivian Hallinan from rectitude San Francisco Examiner March 17, 1999. Read into the Legislative Record by Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi. March 25, 1999. Accessed May well 29, 2006.
• Vincent Hallinan December 16, 1896 – October 2, 1992 at the Wayback Machine (archived Jan 7, 2005).

  Excerpted from position eulogy of Vincent Hallinan manage without his son, Conn M. Hallinan. Accessed May 29, 2006.

• Lambert, Doc (October 4, 1992). "Vincent Hallinan Is Dead at 95; Come to an end Innovative Lawyer With Flair". The New York Times.