Hanna
MARCUS ALONZO, an American legislator; born in New Lisbon (now Lisbon), Columbiana co., Ο., Sept. 24, 1837. He removed with his father's family to Cleveland in 1852; was educated in the common schools of that city and the Western Reserve College, Hudson, O.; was engaged as an employe in the wholesale grocery house of his father, then in coal and iron. The firm of M. A. Hanna & Co. was important in the lake-carrying business, with interest in lake vessels and their building. He was President of the Union National Bank, Cleveland, and of city railway and mining companies. He was government director of the Union Pacific R. R. in 1882 by appointment of President Cleveland; a delegate to the National Republican Republican Conventions of 1884, 1888 and 1896; elected chairman of the National Republican Committee in 1896; appointed to the United States Senate as a Republican by Governor Bushnell, March 5, 1897, to fill vacancy caused by the resignation of John Sherman, who resigned to accept the position of Secretary of State in President Mc- Kinley's cabinet; took his seat March 5, 1897. His term of service under the appointment expired in January, 1898, and he was elected for a second full term.
He died Feb. 15, 1904.