Where in the Cleveland area would you find this statue of Marcus A. Hanna?
Marcus Alonzo Hanna was a US Senator from Ohio and was instrumental in having William McKinley elected governor of Ohio in 1891 and again in 1893. Among other things, he advocated construction of the Panama Canal, opposing the Nicaraguan route.
Hanna was one of the organizers (1901) and the first president of the National Civic Federation, whose purpose was to solve social and industrial problems, and in 1901 became chairman of a permanent board of conciliation and arbitration established by the Federation.