Background
Hanson, Maurice Francis was born on October 14, 1907 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Michael Francis and Sarah (O'Neill) Hanson.
Hanson, Maurice Francis was born on October 14, 1907 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Michael Francis and Sarah (O'Neill) Hanson.
Bachelor of Arts, Yale, 1930.
Foreign correspondent, columnist, Consolidated Publications Newspapers, 1930-1932; account executive, department head, Benton & Bowles, Inc., 1932-1938; with, J. Walter Thompson Company, 1938-1943, 46-60; vice president, J. Walter Thompson Company, 1947-1960; consultant to, Yale president A. Whitney Griswold, 1960-1962; public relations consultant, General Motors Corporation, 1963-1967; founder, editor, public, The Nutmegger magazine of Connecticut, Greenwich, 1967-1989. Deputy director Office of War Information, 1943-1946.
Member of Round Hill (Greenwich). Royal and Ancient Golf (St. Andrews, Scotland).
Married Margaret Ellen Hixon, October 28, 1939. Children: Robert Hixon, Michael Francis, Barbara Hanson (Mistress Charles Eliot Pierce, Junior).