Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Mark Hanna

Mark Hanna
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The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/February 15, 2014 by BencherliteTalk 13:48, 23 December 2014 (UTC)



Mark Hanna (1837 – 1904) was a Republican United States Senator from Ohio and the friend and political manager of President William McKinley. Hanna was born in New Lisbon (today Lisbon), Ohio, in 1837. His family moved to the growing city of Cleveland in his teenage years, where he attended high school with John D. Rockefeller. Hanna made millions as a businessman by his 40th birthday, and turned his attention to politics. Despite Hanna's efforts on his behalf, Ohio Senator John Sherman failed to gain the Republican nomination for president in 1884 and 1888. With Sherman too old to be considered a contender, Hanna used his money and business skills to successfully manage McKinley's presidential campaign in 1896. Declining a Cabinet position, Hanna secured appointment as senator from Ohio after Sherman was made Secretary of State; he was re-elected by the Ohio General Assembly in 1898 and 1904. He managed McKinley's successful re-election campaign in 1900. After the President's assassination in 1901, Senator Hanna worked for the building of a canal in Panama, rather than elsewhere in Central America. He died in 1904, and is remembered for his role in McKinley's election, thanks to savage cartoons by such illustrators as Homer Davenport, who lampooned him as McKinley's political master.

4 points: 2 year FA, 110th anniversary of death. Which was an event as it did set off a struggle for his Senate seat, though that's more gone into in other articles. At least two, anyway.--Wehwalt (talk) 23:41, 24 January 2014 (UTC)


 * Support: Interesting character who shaped an era, regional connection (Ohio) not seen much on wiki, solid article.  Montanabw (talk) 20:54, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Support. Educational article about a deceased politician who is no longer alive and has ceased to be. Also, Bowties are cool!!! Cheers, &mdash; Cirt (talk) 00:20, 26 January 2014 (UTC)