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Senate Years of Service: 1897-1904 Party: Republican
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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.
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