” Gallagher said. “Electoral politics was never supposed to be a career and, trust me, Congress is no place to grow old. And so, with a heavy heart, I have decided not to run for reelection.”
As a local leader in the Teamsters Union in the 1950s, he became known as a reformer who repeatedly clashed with corrupt national union officials. Sen. Robert F. Kennedy praised Cohelan’s honest and progressive leadership in his book about the union, “The Enemy Within.” Advertisement Descr...