About Harold Roe Bartle
Harold Roe Bennett Sturdyvant Bartle (June 25, 1901 – May 9, 1974), better known as H. Roe Bartle, was an American businessman, philanthropist, executive, and professional public speaker who served two terms as mayor of Kansas City, Missouri. After Bartle helped lure the Dallas Texans American Football League team to Kansas City in 1962, owner Lamar Hunt renamed the franchise the Kansas City Chiefs after Bartle's nickname, The Chief. == Early life and education == Bartle was born in Richmond, Virginia, the only child of Samuel Dunn Bartle, an English immigrant and Presbyterian minister, and Ada Mae Roe, of northern Illinois. The Bartle family was musical, and at age thirteen, Harold was playing the piano and organ at his father's church. The same year, he also attempted to enlist in the army, but his father produced proof of his age and had him discharged. Between 1916 and 1920, Bartle attended Fork Union Military Academy, where his father taught history and military science. There, Roe (as he now insisted on being called) became a championship debater. He attended the University of Chattanooga in 1920, where he proved a natural athlete, but suffered a serious bout of pneumonia. He returned to his family, now in Lebanon, Kentucky, where in 1921, he earned a law degree from Hamilton College of Law, a Chicago-based correspondence school. == Personal life == Bartle met Margaret Ann Caroline Jarvis in Lebanon, and they were married on September 26, 1923, in St.
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