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Marcus Alonzo Hanna was born on September 24, 1837, in New Lisbon, Ohio, to Dr. Leonard and Samantha Hanna. His parents were well educated. Young Hanna enjoyed material comfort and relative social privilege.
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Photograph Description: Marcus Alonzo Hanna, 1837-1904, half-length portrait, seated, facing left Published: 1901 Notes: Photo by Prince.
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Businessman governor politician reformer
Marcus Alonzo Hanna was born on September 24, 1837, in New Lisbon, Ohio, to Dr. Leonard and Samantha Hanna. His parents were well educated. Young Hanna enjoyed material comfort and relative social privilege.
When the family moved to Cleveland in 1852, he completed public school. After graduation in 1857, Hanna attended Western Reserve College, but was dismissed for distributing mock programs at a solemn ceremonial.
Business permeated Hanna's youthful environment and immediately absorbed his energies. Mark Hanna became a full partner in the family grocery firm after his father's death in 1862. Following his marriage in 1864, he launched ventures in lake transportation and oil refining, areas of enterprise that were also attracting his Cleveland schoolmate John D. Rockefeller. Hanna later joined his father-in-law in a large iron and coal firm.
Politics, a vigorous Ohio tradition, early engaged Hanna's attention, and he embraced the Republican party instinctively. To his father-in-law, a fervent Democrat, he seemed "a damned screecher for freedom. " In reality, despite this appearance and later skirmishes with Cleveland's ward bosses in the 1870s, Hanna was no reformer, but he realized that business and politics were becoming increasingly related. He lent his organizational talents and money to the Ohio Republicans who sought the presidency between 1880 and 1900. He helped elect McKinley governor of Ohio in 1891 and president in 1896 and 1900. His management of the McKinley campaigns marked the successful application of business skills to American politics. Later he championed ship subsidies and an Isthmian canal to increase America's power through international trade.
Between 1897 and his death Hanna served in the Senate.
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Quotations:
Don't organize for any other purpose than mutual benefit to the employer and the employee.
Don't organize in the spirit of antagonism; that should be beneath your consideration.
If we can by any method establish a relation of mutual trust between the laborer and the employer, we shall lay the foundation stone of a structure that will endure for all time.
On September 27, 1864, Mark Hanna married Charlotte Augusta Rhodes, the daughter of a successful iron and coal merchant, the couple ultimately had three children, Daniel Rhodes, Mabel Augusta Hanna Parsons and Ruth Hanna McCormick.