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MARCUS ALONZO HANNA (1837-1904)

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 920 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MARCUS ALONZO See also:HANNA (1837-1904)  , See also:American politician, was See also:born at New See also:Lisbon (now Lisbon) Columbiana See also:county, See also:Ohio, on the 24th of See also:September 1837 . In 1852 he removed with his See also:father to See also:Cleveland, where the latter established himself in the wholesale grocery business, and the son received his See also:education in the public See also:schools of that See also:city, and at the Western Reserve University . Leaving See also:college before the completion of his course, he became associated with his father in business, and on his father's See also:death (1862) became a member of the See also:firm . In 1867 he entered into See also:partnership with his father-in-See also:law, See also:Daniel P . See also:Rhodes, in the See also:coal and See also:iron business . It was largely due to See also:Hanna's progressive methods that the business of the firm, which became M . A . Hanna & See also:Company in 1877, was extended to include the ownership of a See also:fleet of See also:lake steamships constructed in their own shipyards, and the See also:control and operation of valuable coal and iron mines . Subsequently he became largely interested in See also:street railway properties in Cleveland and elsewhere, and in various banking institutions . In See also:early See also:life he had little See also:time for politics, but after 188o he became prominent in the affairs of the Republican party in Cleveland, and in 1884 and 1888 was a delegate to the Republican See also:National See also:Convention, in the latter See also:year being associated with See also:William See also:McKinley in the management of the See also:John See also:Sherman See also:canvass . It was not, however, until 1896, when he personally managed the canvass that resulted in securing the Republican presidential nomination for William McKinley at the St See also:Louis Convention (at which he was a delegate), that he became known throughout the See also:United States as a See also:political manager of See also:great adroitness, tact and resourcefulness . Subsequently he became chairman of the Republican National See also:Committee, and managed with consummate skill the See also:campaign of 1896 against William Jennings See also:Bryan and " See also:free-See also:silver." In See also:March 1897 he was appointed, by See also:Governor See also:Asa S..See also:Bushnell (1834–1904) United States senator from Ohio, to succeed John Sherman .

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senate, to which in See also:January 1898 he was elected for the See also:short See also:term ending on the 3rd of March 1899 and for the succeeding full term, he took little See also:part in the debates, but was recognized as one of the See also:principal advisers of the McKinley See also:administration, and his See also:influence was large in consequence . Apart from politics he took a deep and active See also:interest in the problems of See also:capital and labour, was one of the organizers (See also:root) and the first See also:president of the National Civic Federation, whose purpose was to solve social and See also:industrial problems, and in See also:December 1901 became chairman of a permanent See also:board of conciliation and See also:arbitration established by the Federation . After President See also:Roosevelt's policies became defined, Senator Hanna came to be regarded as the See also:leader of the conservative See also:branch of the Republican party and a possible presidential See also:candidate in 1904 . He died at See also:Washington on the 15th of See also:February 1904 .

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