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Battles/wars. American Civil War. Marcus Alonzo Hanna (September 24, 1837 – February 15, 1904) was an American businessman and Republican politician who served as a United States Senator from Ohio as well as chairman of the Republican National Committee.
This “front porch campaign” proved victorious on November 3, 1896, putting William McKinley in the White House and turning Hanna into a national symbol of political power ridiculed by cartoonists as “Dollar Mark.”
Mark Hanna is remembered as one of the most influential political figures of the late 19th and very early 20th centuries. He is credited with beginning the development of the modern political campaign in which a consistent message was delivered to a national audience.
Mark Hanna was an American industrialist and prototype of the political kingmaker; he successfully promoted the presidential candidacy of William McKinley in the election of 1896 and personified the growing influence of big business in American politics.
Marcus Alonzo “Mark” Hanna was a Republican United States Senator from Ohio and the friend and political manager of President William McKinley. Hanna had made millions as a businessman, and used his money and business skills to successfully manage McKinley’s presidential campaigns in 1896 and 1900.
Marcus A. Hanna: A Featured Biography. Mark Hanna excelled in business before applying his considerable talent and enormous wealth to politics. He used both attributes to bolster the presidential campaigns of fellow Ohioans Rutherford Hayes in 1876 and James Garfield in 1880.
Selected as chairman of the Republican national committee in 1896, he became a key figure in national politics. McKinley's victory over William Jennings Bryan, the choice of both the Populists and the Democrats, in the election that year is widely attributed to Hanna's fund-raising and skills of political management.
Mar 23, 2021 · Mark Hanna was not a native of Columbus. But he spent a lot of time here in the Statehouse and in smoke-filled rooms of nearby hotels.
Marcus Alonzo Hanna (September 24, 1837 – February 15, 1904) was an American businessman and Republican politician who served as a United States Senator from Ohio as well as chairman of the Republican National Committee.
(1837–1904). Few men in United States history have exemplified the close ties between business and politics better than Mark Hanna. He was an industrialist who became convinced that the welfare of industry, and therefore the country, was bound with the fortunes of the Republican party.
