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Senate Years of Service: 1897-1904 Party: Republican
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Library of Congress
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HANNA, Marcus Alonzo (Mark), (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.
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