hotel included Richard Arlen, Charles "Buddy" Rogers and Clara Bow. In 2012, the hotel hosted the Arena Football University. At this event, arena football teams meet with vendors and league officials to discuss the upcoming season. Famous deaths Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, died in the hotel on December 13, 1924. Texas politician Robert L. Bobbitt lived in the St. Anthony for the last year of his life prior to his death in 1972. In the moments leading up to his death, Major General Frederick Funston, who President Woodrow Wilson favored as leader of the American Expeditionary Force in the First World War, was relaxing in the lobby of the hotel listening to The Blue Danube Waltz. After commenting, "How beautiful it all is," he collapsed from a massive painful heart attack (myocardial infarction) and died on February 19, 1917. He was holding six-year old Inez Harriet Silverberg in his arms. Wilson was forced to choose General John Pershing as a replacement. References Bibliography External links Hotel buildings completed in 1909 Hotel buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Texas Hotels in San Antonio National Register of Historic Places in San Antonio