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Hanna, Marcus Alonzo

financier, United States senator, was born Sept. 24, 1837, in New Lisbon, Ohio. He is president of the Union National bank of Cleveland; and was government director of the Union Pacific Railway company in 1885, by appointment of President Cleveland. He was a delegate to the national republican conventions of 1884, 1888, and 1896; was elected chairman of the national republican committee in 1896, and still holds that position. He was appointed to the United States senate as a republican in 1897, to fill a vacancy.