Collection ID: LMC 1453
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Summary

Creator:
Hanna, John, 1827-1882
Abstract:
The Hanna mss., 1853-1879, consists of papers of John Hanna, 1827-1882, United States congressman from Indiana, 1877-1879.
Extent:
1 Box (1 standard)
Language:
English .
Preferred citation:

[Item], Hanna mss., Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.

Background

Biographical / Historical:

John Hanna, 1827-1882, was born near Indianapolis, Indiana, on 3 September 1827. He graduated from Indiana Asbury (DePauw) University in 1850 and began practicing law in Greencastle, Indiana, where he served as mayor from 1851 to 1854. He moved to Kansas in the spring of 1858 and was a member of the Kansas Territorial Legislature from 1857 to 1858. Hanna then returned to Indiana and in 1860 was a presidential elector on the Republican ticket for the seventh Indiana district. From 1861 to 1869, he served as U.S. District Attorney for Indiana. He also represented Indiana while serving in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1877 to 1879. Hanna died in Plainfield, Indiana, on 24 October 1882.

Scope and Content:

The Hanna mss., 1853-1879, consists of papers of John Hanna, 1827-1882, United States congressman from Indiana, 1877-1879.

The papers consist of correspondence with prominent political figures, financiers, journalists, lawyers, printers, and diplomats. They deal with Indiana politics, the presidential election of 1860, political patronage, purported Southern sympathizers, and the Knights of the Golden Circle in Indiana, 1862-1863.

Among the correspondents are Edward Bates, J.P. Campbell, Schuyler Colfax, Oliver Craven, William Cumback, Walter P. Hanna, James Harlan, Benjamin Harrison, John S. Hobart, William Robeson Holloway, John Adam Kasson, George King, Henry Smith Lane, J.V.R. Miller, C. Moore, Oliver Perry Morton, John Chalfant New, Albert Gallatin Porter, Jacob Ragle, Thomas Schooley, John Stevenson Tarkington, William H.H. Terrell, Joseph A. Thompson, Daniel Wolsey Voorhees, and A.M. Wilson.

Acquisition information:
Gift: 1951
Arrangement:

This collection is arranged following original order.

Physical location:
Lilly - Stacks

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PREFERRED CITATION:

[Item], Hanna mss., Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.

CAMPUS:
Indiana University Bloomington
LOCATION OF THIS COLLECTION:
1200 East Seventh Street
Bloomington, Indiana 47405-5500, USA
CAMPUS:
Indiana University Bloomington
CONTACT:
(812) 855-2452
liblilly@indiana.edu