The son of legendary Republican kingmaker, Marcus A. Hanna, he was active in the M. A. Hanna Co., the family's mining enterprise, for most of his adult life. In 1910, he entered the newspaper business, purchasing the Cleveland Leader. Two years later, he purchased the Cleveland News, thereby bringing two of Cleveland's four daily newspapers under single ownership. Hanna, who brought tough Chicagoans with gangster ties to Cleveland in 1913 to improve his papers' circulation numbers, undoubtedly learned a thing or two about how to run a newspaper from his brother-in-law, Joseph Medill McCormick, the owner of the Chicago Tribune. This photograph was taken in 1921, the year he died. | Creator: Cleveland Public Library, Digital Photograph CollectionDownload Original File
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