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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—OhioHANNA, Marcus Alonzo
(1837—1904)
Senate Years of Service:
1897-1904
Party:
Republican
HANNA, Marcus Alonzo, (father of Ruth Hanna McCormick), a Senator from Ohio; born in New Lisbon (now Lisbon), Columbiana County, Ohio, September 24, 1837; moved with his parents to Cleveland in 1852; attended the common schools of that city and Western Reserve College, Hudson, Ohio; engaged in the wholesale grocery business and later in the iron and coal business, the lake carrying trade, and railroads; chairman of the Republican National Committee in 1896; appointed in 1897 and subsequently elected as a Republican to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John Sherman; reelected in January 1898 and also was elected for the succeeding full term and served from March 5, 1897, until his death in Washington, D.C. on February 15, 1904; chairman, Committee on Relations with Canada (Fifty-fifth through Fifty-seventh Congresses), Committee on Enrolled Bills (Fifty-seventh Congress), Committee on Interoceanic Canals (Fifty-eighth Congress); funeral services were held in the Chamber of the United States Senate; interment in Lake View Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio.
Bibliography
American National Biography
; Dictionary of American Biography
; Beer, Thomas. Hanna
. New York: Octagon Books, 1973; Croly, Herbert. Marcus Hanna: His Life and Works
. Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, 1965.
Beer, Thomas. Hanna
. 1929. Reprint. New York: Octagon Books, 1973.
Croly, Herbert David. Marcus Alonzo Hanna: His Life and Work
. 1912. Reprint. Hamden, CT: Archon Books, 1965.
Felt, Thomas Edward. “The Rise of Mark Hanna.” Ph.D. dissertation, Michigan State University, 1961.
Hanna, Marcus Alonzo. Mark Hanna: His Book
. Boston: Chapple Publishing Co., 1904.
McCook, Henry Christopher. The Senator: A Threnody
. Philadelphia: G.W. Jacobs Co., 1905. A poetic tribute with extensive biographical footnotes.
Russell, Francis. “The Red Boss of Cleveland: Marcus Alonzo Hanna.” In The President Makers: From Mark Hanna to Joseph P. Kennedy
, pp. 1-42. Boston: Little, Brown Co., 1976.
Shoemaker, Fred Chester. “Mark Hanna and the Transformation of the Republican Party.” Ph.D. dissertation, Ohio State University, 1992.
Stern, Clarence Ames. Resurgent Republicanism: The Handiwork of Hanna
. Ann Arbor: Edwards Brothers, 1968.
Thompson, Charles Willis. “Hanna-McKinley.” In Presidents I’ve Known and Two Near Presidents
, pp. 15-37. 1956. Reprint. Freeport, NY: Books For Libraries Press, 1970.
U.S. Congress. Marcus A. Hanna (Late a Senator from Ohio)
. 58th Cong., 2d sess. 1903-1904. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1904.
Wolff, Gerald W. “Mark Hanna’s Goal: American Harmony.” Ohio History
79 (Summer-Autumn 1970): 138-51.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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